1930
Edgar Erat Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company
Edgar Erat Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company
The Company of Newspaper Makers is incorporated in the Stationers' Company.
John Henry Williams is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
The Honourable Company of Master Mariners is created, the first one for 223 years.
Sir Percy Greenaway, the Master of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
P. N. McFarlane is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Sir Percy Greenaway is re-elected as Master of Stationers' Company
On December 5th it is announced that Edward, Prince of Wales has accepted the honorary freedom and Livery of the Company and agreed to serve as Master. The installation takes place on December 20th.
R. Metchim is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
In January, a week before he ascends the throne as King Edward VIII, the Prince of Wales resigns the Mastership.
Sidney Hodgson is elected Master of Stationers' Company upon the resignation of the Prince of Wales. He is also appointed as Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Robert Adlard is elected Master of Stationers' Company in June 1936.
Edward VIII begins his reign after the death of his father George V, but abdicates in December in order to marry Wallis Simpson.
George VI becomes King, his coronation taking place on 12 May 1937.
Sir William Baddeley is elected Master of Stationers' Company in July 1937.
A Royal Charter is granted to the Stationers' Company and the Newspaper Makers' Company, under the name of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.
The Daily Telegraph absorbs the Morning Post after poor sales for the Morning Post.
Lord Iliffe is elected Master of Stationers' Company in January 1938.
Henry Dexter Truscott is elected Master of Stationers' Company in July 1938.
D. F. Kellie is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Charles Felix Clay is elected Master of Stationers' Company in January 1939.
Edward Chevenix Austin-Leigh is elected Master of Stationers' Company in July 1939.
Edward Unwin is elected Master of Stationers' Company in January 1940.
Sir Edgar Lutwyche Waterlow is elected Master of Stationers' Company in July 1940.
Axis enemy action during the Second World War causes the Court Room to be partially destroyed.
Sir George Wilkinson, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected as Lord Mayor of London.
S. E. Sandle is appointed Chairman to the Livery Committee.
Major Stanley Low is elected Master of Stationers' Company in January 1941.
Lieutenant Colonel John Jacob Astor is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Herbert Arthur Fox is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Charles Jon Watts is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
W. N. Bacon is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Robert Kingston Burt is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Herbert William Jordan is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Victor Bobardt Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
J. A. Bailey is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Bernard Guy Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Sidney Hodgson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
H. F. Thompson is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Reginald Thurston Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company after previously serving as Clerk.
On 4 January Stationers' Hall and the church of St Martin-within-Ludgate are deemed Grade I listed buildings.
Arthur George Fowler is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Philip S. Unwin is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Charles Clifton Tollit is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
William Will is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Elizabeth II is crowned Queen on 2 June.
F. A. Garrett is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
C de Ryk is elected Chairman of the Livery Committee.
William Penman is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Cuthbert Grasemann is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Victor R. Penman is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
The Court Room, which was damaged in 1940 by enemy fire during the war, is restored.
Stationers' holds the four hundredth anniversary dinner celebrating receiving the Royal Charter on 4 May in the refurbished Hall. It is the first major function in the Hall since its destruction in World War Two.
Gordon St Patrick Wells is appointed Clerk to Stationers' Company.
Sir Denis Henry Truscott, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
A. W. Last is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
George P. Simon is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Sir Denis Henry Truscott is elected Master of Stationers' Company after serving as Lord Mayor the previous year.
James E. Ousey is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
George L. Riddell is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
William H. Young is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
The Company establishes a Charity Fund "for making grants to the trade benevolent societies and other institutions, for general educational purposes and to supplement grants to pensioners".
John Betts is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
H. W. Underhill is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
J.M. Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
The National Theatre stages its first play, Shakespeare's Hamlet, with Peter O'Toole in the lead role.
J.A. Bailey is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
A. G. L. Atkinson is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Johnson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
D. F. Kellie is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
N. C. B Harrison is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Henry Frank Thompson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Charles A. Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
C. T. Rivington is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
John Hubbard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Major Eric Burt is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
William C. Young is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Philip Unwin is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
George L. Riddell is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
J. C. Moran is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Alan P. Greenaway is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Sir Derek Greenaway is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Colonel Ralph Alexander Rubens is appointed Clerk to Stationers' Company.
K. Day is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Leonard E. Kenyon is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Jack Matson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
R.W. Read and P. T. Rippon are appointed Chairmen of the Livery Committee.
E. Glanvill been is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Brian T. Coulton is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
J. E. Langford is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.
Wilfrid B. Hodgson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
Kenneth B. Robinson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
R. F. Fullick is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.