The Worshipful Company of Upholders

The Master and his Immediate Team

Master Peter Lawton

Peter Lawton was installed Master of the Worshipful Company of Upholders on Wednesday 25th April, 2007

Peter is a Director of a company providing blue chip companies with corporate hospitality, sports sponsorship, conferencing and incentive travel.

He has been a Liveryman since 1994 and became of member of the Court in 2002. Educated at Friern Barnet Grammar School and Regents Street Polytechnic, he qualified as a surveyor in 1967, but had a change of business direction in 1980.

Peter lives in Cuffley, Hertfordshire and is married to Vera. They have a daughter and a son and one grandson. He is a member of the MCC and follows cricket. He plays golf and has yet to attain a single figure handicap or a hole in one.
 

 


 

Senior Warden Richard Thomas Nevard

Richard became a Liveryman in January 1987 and joined his father Peter on the Court in 2000.? He is delighted to be the 3rd generation of his family to have held office in the Upholders following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Neville Hayman, who was Father of the Company, and of Past Master Christopher Hayman.

 

Richard is a Project Manager and Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He has led technology development, knowledge transfer and construction projects. He is also proud of the Annual Apprentice Awards given in memory of Tom Nevard, Peter?s father.?

 

Richard is a keen yachtsman and is looking forward to taking his family sailing in Croatia this summer.? His wife, Sue, was a translator in the City.? Their daughters Rosie (15) and twins Lucy and Jenny (14) all enjoy dance.? In his ?spare? time Richard is learning French and has just been elected churchwarden in Leigh, near Sevenoaks.

 

Junior Warden Revd. John Cowling

John had two musical parents, his mother was a violinist and his father a singer and pianist, so a love of music has always been a part of his life.  From singing in the local church choir as a boy he was drawn into the Christian community and, after school at K.C.S. Wimbledon, national service and three more years in Cambridge he offered himself for ordination in the Church of England.

Married to Margaret, who teaches piano and is an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, they have four children and twelve grandchildren.

In 1991 he came to London to be Rector of St. Olaves Church in the City and soon became Chaplain of the Upholders' Company, a role he has gladly filled ever since.

John retired in 2005 and now lives in the village of Burmarsh on Romney Marsh in Kent, where he looks after a small 12th century church and the local villagers.

 

 

Honorary Clerk Jean R. Cody

[Photograph of Hon. Clerk, Jean Cody]Jean was Clothed in the Livery in January 2003 and was appointed Clerk in May 2003. She is a Freeman of the City of London and a Freeman of the Company.

Jean was born in South London on 28th February 1947 and studied at Trinity School, the first purpose built comprehensive school for girls in London. At 17, having gained several GCEs including English, Maths and Art, she began work in one of Lloyds of London's insurance companies as an Audio Typist and Secretary.

Jean was married to James in 1965 and has two sons and a daughter, all of whom are married - she currently has four grandsons and two granddaughters. She is a Director of the family engineering supplies business.

Jean is President for the fifth time of the Innerwheel Club of Penge, an international organisation providing fundraising and service for local and international charities. Her hobbies include her grandchildren and family, cooking and home entertaining, holidays and travel, container gardening, Scottish Country Dancing and genealogy.

 

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