23rd September 1946 – 27th December 2019 It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Colonel Wally Torrington just after Christmas. He was born into a post-war family with his Dad (Wally senior) serving in the Welsh Guards and Mum, having been de-mobbed from the wartime ATS, trying to make ends …
During his time as Company Almoner Alan Fairbrass had a sure-fire answer to any of the personal upsets that required his attendance – a bottle of champagne.
Retired Liveryman General Sir Geoffrey Howlett found himself at the centre of one of the most controversial events of the Northern Ireland conflict – the Bloody Sunday shooting in 1971 when ten people including a priest were were killed.
Edmund – Teddy – was born to Edwin and Muriel Horne in 1935 in Hounslow, Middlesex, the oldest of three brothers.
Kate Wadmore’s mother Janet was an excellent cook, in both the culinary sense of the word and in the support that she gave to this Company
Past Master John Barrie Righton passed away on 18th April 2022, just a month after his 92nd birthday. Several Cooks attended St Mary’s Oatlands Church in Weybridge Surrey to pay their respects at his funeral. In the presence of John’s wife Kathy, his daughter Katie read the poem “He is Gone” and his son Jonathan …
Honorary Freeman Patrick Robert Stopford, affectionately known as Bobby, was a Captain in the Royal Navy and a Supply Officer. He was introduced to the Company when he held the role of Director of Fleet Supply Duties – this was the role with overall responsibility for Naval Catering and the incumbent was invited to join …
Hugh was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 19 March He spent a happy childhood there until the onset of the Second World War, when he moved to Norfolk with his mother and elder brother while his father John Henry served as Quartermaster Sergeant in a searchlight battalion on the east coast. The family still have …
Mark was born on 13th March 1952 and grew up in West Byfleet, Surrey. After leaving school in 1972 he completed a degree in hotel studies at Surrey University, one of only four hotel schools in the world offering degrees in the field of catering at that time.
He held many positions within the industry, from teaching at the Army School of Catering as a grade A instructor, to teaching at colleges including Port Rush in Northern Ireland and running his own restaurant in North Wales.
25 April 1929 – 29 December 2023 Maura Kane was the wife of the late Past Master John Kane and sadly passed away at the end of last year. Past Master Michael Thatcher, who was Clerk at the time, remembers John as an active Master, who raised the Company’s profile in the City and attended …
Sue was the wife of late Past Master John. Son-in-law Liveryman Iain Blair, said she was so often at Don and Mark’s side, and valued the many friends she made over the years from the Cooks. She died on 8 June and her funeral was taken by past Master, Father of the Company, and Company …
Liveryman Colonel John Lowndes TD died at home on 2 August after a prolonged period of poor health. He was at home with Sue, his beloved wife of 43 years. John joined the Company in February 1993.
Haroon Ahmed died on October 23rd 2024 at home in Cambridge surrounded by his family. He had been an honorary freeman of the Cooks’ Company since 2007.
Pamela Elizabeth was born in March 1935, did well at school, and decided to pursue a career in Hotel Management. She enrolled on a course at Westminster College … a place that would change her life forever.
It is with great affection that we remember Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Ramsay Shepherd who died on 14 June 2026, aged 64.
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