Worshipful Company of Farmers

The Worshipful Company of Farmers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

The company became a Livery Company in 1952, with the support of HM King George VI, and was granted a royal charter three years later by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1955. The Farmers' Company supports farming students and promotes education in agriculture.

HRH Princess Anne, Princess Royal was master of the company for 2001–02. HM King Charles III was conferred as Honorary Liveryman of the Company in 1980.

The Farmers' Company ranks eightieth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Give Us Our Daily Bread.

Coat of Arms

The College of Arms has granted the Livery Company's coat of arms as per the following blazoning^[1]:

Coat of arms of Worshipful Company of Farmers
Granted 6 May 1948 Crest On a wreath of the colours, A bull passant gules semee of mullets Or, armed and unguled gold. Escutcheon Azure, three ears of wheat in fesse slipped and leaved Or; a chief of the last. Supporters On either side a farm labourer proper holding in the exterior hand a sickle also proper [the whole upon a compartment of ploughed land, the furrows receding from the foreground, proper]. Motto Give us our Daily Bread

References

^ Briggs, Geoffrey (1971). Civic & corporate heraldry: a dictionary of impersonal arms of England, Wales, & N. Ireland. London: (10 Beauchamp Place, S.W.3), Heraldry Today. pp. 159–161. ISBN 978-0-900455-21-6.

External links

The Worshipful Company of Farmers

[1] Briggs, Geoffrey (1971). Civic & corporate heraldry: a dictionary of impersonal arms of England, Wales, & N. Ireland. London: (10 Beauchamp Place, S.W.3), Heraldry Today. pp. 159–161. ISBN 978-0-900455-21-6.

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