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THE SALAMANDER | DECEMBER 2017
St Florian’s Installation Banquet
This year our banquet was held at the very impressive Saddlers’ Hall
This year’s St Florian’s
Installation Banquet was held
on the 20th October and,
with the kind permission of
the Prime Warden and Court
of the Saddlers’ Company,
the dinner was held in the
Great Hall of the magnificent
Saddlers’ Hall.
Our
Company’s
recently
installed Master Firefighter,
John Mansfield, along with his
lovely wife, Lesley, the Mistress
Firefighter, hosted the event.
The principal guest and speaker
was Detective Chief Inspector
Mike Neville who is Head of
Cyber Crime Investigations at
Scotland Yard and an author
of several books on a range
of topics. The evening was a
splendid affair and enjoyed by
all who came.
The opportunity to see and
admire the new Badge of Office
and Shrieval Chain worn by
Alderman Timothy Hailes JP
was taken at the dinner and
Timothy was kind enough
afterwards to provide us with
some detail on the design.
Alderman Timothy Hailes’s
connecting three key strands in
Tim’s life and his passion for
linking and protecting each in
both his civic and professional
careers.
Radiating out are the shields
of the International Bankers’,
Solicitors’, Pewterers’, Fire
Fighters’ and Paviours’ Livery
Companies together with Kings
College London where he read
a degree in history. Rising up
from the tips of the wings and
connecting the badge to the
City of London coat of arms is
a Pewterer’s hammer and a
Firefighter’s axe - two Livery
Companies located in the
heart of his Ward and stalwart
supporters of his civic career
from the outset. The oval ring
with the City arms has behind
it a hidden symbol of the Prime
Meridian as a link to Greenwich,
the home of Alderman Hailes,
and his family’s maritime
connections.
The motto ‘Sagax,
Integer, Fidelis’ translates as:
Wisdom, Integrity, and Fidelity.
coat of arms were designed by
Somerset Herald, David Vines
White.
The rationale of the design: the
fleur-de-lis is taken from the
arms of the County of Dorset,
native county of Alderman
Hailes and his family on both
the paternal and maternal
sides. The white roundels on the
shield (set in diamonds on the
badge) and in the wings of the
crest are a pun on his surname
(“hailstones”).
The Shrieval Badge of
Office was designed the City
goldsmith, Grant Mcdonald and
made in his bankside workshop.
The badge design has the
coat of arms at the centre of a
stylised Guardian Griffin (which
replicates the crest surmounting
the arms). The griffin, with
the body and tail of a lion and
the head and wings of an
eagle, is traditionally the fierce
guardian of precious treasure
and priceless possessions.
The gold roundel in the crest
represents banking and the
sword symbolises both the law
and the City of London - thereby
The Shrieval Chain & Badge of Office
Our Master (John Mansfield) with Aldermanic Sherriff (Timothy Hailes JP)
Robert Farquhar
PR & Marketing Committee.
Worshipful Company of Firefighters