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The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation was established in 1358; it received a Royal Charter in 1484. The Wax Chandlers, or wax-candle makers, were traditionally separate from Tallow Chandlers; wax candles were customary in churches, while tallow candles were used in homes. As is the case with most other Livery Companies, the Wax Chandlers are no longer a trade association of wax candle makers, instead existing as a charitable institution.
The Wax Chandlers' Company ranks twentieth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies, immediately above the Tallow Chandlers. The Company's motto is Truth Is The Light.
External link
The Wax Chandlers' Company (http://www.waxchandlershall.co.uk/)
Sir Gavyn joined the Guild in February 1994, and he is a Liveryman of both the WorshipfulCompany of WaxChandlers and the WorshipfulCompany of Gardeners.
During 2001 he was elected Prime Warden of the WorshipfulCompany of Blacksmiths and has recently served as Chairman of the House Committee of Lindrick Golf Club.
Now living in a small village a few miles outside Sheffield with his wife Pearl, and has two married daughters, one of whom is also a Liveryman of the Blacksmiths' Company and a member of the Guild of Freemen.
The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the WorshipfulCompany of the relevant trade or profession.
The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
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