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This is a list of organisations with a British royal charter. It includes organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.

The list of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter is an alphabetical list of organisations in the UK.

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Day and month Year Name Notes Date sealed Reference
1067 Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London "City of London Corporation"
17 November 1155 Weavers' Company (See also under 1707 below)
1231 University of Cambridge
1248 University of Oxford
1272 Saddlers' Company
1282 Bridge House Estates
28 May 1284 Peterhouse, Cambridge
10 March 1326 Merchant Taylors' Company
1 March 1327 Skinners' Company
1327 Goldsmiths' Company
6 August 1348 Dean and Canons of Windsor
1348 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
30 June 1379 New College, Oxford
1382 Winchester College
13 January 1393 Mercers' Company
4 December 1416 Cutlers' Company
16 February 1428 Grocers' Company
22 February 1437 Brewers' Company
23 August 1437 Vintners' Company
26 April 1439 Cordwainers' Company
1444 Leathersellers' Company
8 May 1453 Armourers' Company
13 October 1457 Magdalen College, Oxford
8 March 1462 Tallow Chandlers' Company
1462 Barbers' Company
20 March 1463 Ironmongers' Company
16 February 1471 Dyers' Company
20 January 1473 Pewterers Company
1474 Corporation of Blacksmiths of Dublin
16 August 1475 St Catharine's College, Cambridge
7 July 1477 Carpenters' Company
16 February 1483 Wax Chandlers' Company
1496 Jesus College, Cambridge
10 March 1501 Plaisterers' Company
29 April 1501 Coopers' Company
23 February 1504 Poulters' Company
1 July 1505 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
22 July 1509 Bakers' Company
15 January 1512 Brasenose College, Oxford
1517 Corpus Christi College, Oxford
23 September 1518 Royal College of Physicians of London
18 January 1528 Clothworkers' Company
1532 Bristol Grammar School
25 August 1537 Honourable Artillery Company
1541 King's Ely The school's first Royal Charter
19 January 1542 College of Christ of Brecknock
1542 Magdalene College, Cambridge
23 July 1545 King Henry VIII School, Coventry
1545 Warwick School
1547 Trinity College, Cambridge
1547 Norwich School
13 January 1547 Bethlem Hospital
13 January 1547 Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
1549 Pembroke College, Cambridge
13 May 1550 Sherborne School
1550 French Protestant Church of London Charities
12 August 1551 St Thomas' Hospital
14 May 1552 Sedbergh School
17 June 1552 King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge
12 July 1552 King Edward's School, Bath
18 December 1552 Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
1552 Bedford School
1552 King Edward's School, Birmingham
25 April 1552 King Edward VI Free Grammar School (King's School), Macclesfield
  1. The Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free Grammar School (King's School) (Macclesfield)
  2. Foundation of Sir John Percyvale in 1502, refounded by King Edward VI in 1552 with (King Edward VI Free Grammar School Macclesfield)
26 May 1553 Giggleswick School
26 June 1553 Bridewell Hospital
26 June 1553 Christ's Hospital
1553 King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton
1553 Tonbridge School
6 January 1554 Boston Grammar School, Lincolnshire
1554 Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
15 July 1555 College of Arms
1555 Muscovy Company
1555 St John's College, Oxford
7 July 1556 Charity of the Priest and Poor of Ginge Petre in the County of Essex
4 May 1557 Stationers' Company
5 July 1558 Brentwood School, Essex
21 May 1560 Westminster Abbey
28 February 1561 Worcester School
1561 Kingston Grammar School
25 October 1561 Broderers' Company
1562 Royal Grammar School High Wycombe
1562 St Olave's Grammar School
1562 King's Ely The school's second Royal Charter
15 June 1563 Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
1565 Exeter College, Oxford
1565 Highgate School
1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
3 August 1568 Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers
12 October 1568 Worshipful Company of Girdlers
14 April 1570 Joiners' Company
1571 Blacksmiths' Company
1571 Harrow School
27 June 1571 Jesus College, Oxford
9 February 1573 University College, Oxford
1574 Cranbrook School
25 November 1574 Queen Elizabeth's College, Greenwich
1576 Sutton Valence School
1577 Spanish Company
19 June 1578 Haberdashers' Company
1579 Eastland Company
1579 Turkey Company of London
19 July 1581 Painter Stainers' Company
1584 Uppingham School
1585 Queen's College, Oxford
1591 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
1594 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
3 May 1597 Hospital of St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne in Oakham
29 November 1599 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
22 March 1600 Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1600 East India Company
1603 Oriel College, Oxford
1603 Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne
30 August 1603 Fishmongers' Company
17 December 1603 Bishop Auckland Grammar School
2 August 1604 Feltmakers' Company
29 August 1605 Woodmongers' Company
16 September 1605 Butchers' Company
18 September 1605 Gardeners' Company
9 January 1606 Fruiterers' Company
19 January 1606 Drapers' Company C878
30 April 1606 Curriers' Company
15 May 1607 Salters' Company
1610 Newfoundland Company
12 April 1611 Plumbers' Company
22 June 1611 Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse
20 December 1611 Wadham College, Oxford
1611 French Company
1612 Bermuda Company
13 September 1612 Don Baudains (Jersey)
1613 The Honourable The Irish Society
18 September 1614 Founders' Company
1615 Wilson's Grammar School
28 January 1617 Scriveners' Company
6 December 1617 Society of Apothecaries of London
21 June 1619 Dulwich College
21 June 1619 New River Company
9 June 1621 Brown Bakers' Company
1621 Bowyers' Company
13 May 1622 Starch Makers' Company
1624 Pembroke College, Oxford
14 June 1626 Upholders' Company
22 October 1628 Playing Card Makers' Company
16 May 1629 Spectacle Makers' Company
1629 Massachusetts Company
3 July 1630 Sion College
8 July 1631 Sackville College
22 August 1631 Clockmakers' Company
4 April 1636 Comb Makers' Company
20 August 1636 Pinmakers' Company
14 March 1637 Gunmakers' Company
12 January 1638 Horners' Company
22 May 1638 Soap Makers' Company
9 August 1638 Distillers' Company
6 November 1638 Glaziers' Company
10 September 1639 Glovers' Company
27 February 1639 Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
10 November 1656 Needlemakers' Company
13 June 1657 Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters
28 November 1661 Glass Sellers' Company
20 January 1662 Royal African Company
7 February 1662 New England Company
15 July 1662 Royal Society
1662 Bradford Grammar School
16 February 1663 Cooks' Company
21 December 1663 Innholders' Company
17 March 1664 Canary Company
30 June 1664 Royal Scottish Corporation
1 December 1664 Hat-Band Makers' Company
18 May 1666 Broadweavers and Clothiers' Company of Coventry
1666 King's Ely The school's third Royal Charter
3 February 1670 Wheelwrights' Company
2 May 1670 Hudson's Bay Company
2 August 1670 Pattenmakers' Company
29 December 1670 Tin Plate Workers' Company
18 November 1672 Trinity House in Kingston-Upon-Hull
17 January 1674 Farriers' Company
31 May 1677 Coachmakers' Company
17 December 1677 Masons' Company
1 July 1678 Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
19 October 1681 Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh
8 July 1685 Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond
16 June 1693 Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Company
27 July 1694 Bank of England
16 June 1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
15 July 1703 Tanners' Company of Bermondsey
6 March 1704 The Royal Company of Archers C889
26 April 1704 Company of the Mine Adventurers of England
3 November 1704 Queen Anne's Bounty
19 April 1706 Grey Coat Hospital
27 July 1706 Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office
17 November 1707 Weavers' Company
22 December 1707 Charitable Corporation
19 April 1709 Fanmakers' Company
25 May 1709 Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge
23 May 1711 Blanket Weavers of Witney
8 September 1711 South Sea Company
3 December 1711 Loriners' Company
29 July 1714 Worcester College, Oxford
1718 Greenwich Hospital, London
24 July 1718 French Protestant Hospital
27 July 1719 Music Society for Carrying on Operas and other Entertainments
22 June 1720 London Assurance
22 June 1720 Royal Exchange Assurance
8 March 1723 Chelsea Waterworks Company
21 November 1724 Equivalent Company
31 May 1727 Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd
31 July 1729 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax
23 October 1729 Company for working Mines etc. in Scotland
17 October 1739 Foundling Hospital
27 August 1740 Hertford College
28 April 1741 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Norwich and Norfolk
13 April 1742 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Suffolk
25 June 1742 Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh
5 July 1746 British Linen Bank
29 April 1747 Governors of the Charity for the relief of the poor Widows and Orphans
14 July 1748 Excise Incorporation in Scotland
11 October 1750 Society of the Free British Fishery
2 November 1751 Society of Antiquaries of London
9 December 1758 London Hospital
26 January 1765 Society of Artists of Great Britain
8 June 1765 Bethel Hospital, Norwich
19 June 1773 Carron Company
22 June 1768 College of Doctors of Law
1773 Royal Medical Society
27 January 1774 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
24 March 1781 Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods
29 March 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh
6 May 1783 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
9 June 1783 Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
10 July 1786 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
17 May 1787 Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
26 August 1790 Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain
21 December 1791 Glasgow Royal Infirmary
9 January 1792 Society for the Benefit of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
6 March 1793 Inverness Royal Academy
23 August 1793 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)
30 October 1794 Christian Faith Society
6 June 1796 Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
24 January 1797 Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
29 June 1797 Corporation of the Trinity House of Leith
1798 Commercial Buildings Company of Dublin
20 June 1798 Naval Knights of Windsor|
28 June 1798 Ayr Academy
13 January 1800 Royal Institution of Great Britain
22 March 1800 Royal College of Surgeons of England
5 July 1800 Sierra Leone Company
22 September 1800 Downing College, Cambridge
19 April 1801 James Gillespie's High School
26 March 1802 Linnean Society of London
12 May 1802 University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
21 January 1807 London Institution
7 April 1807 Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
6 April 1809 Tain Royal Academy
1808 Commercial Buildings Company of Cork
17 April 1809 Royal Horticultural Society
30 April 1812 Gaslight and Coke Company
23 May 1817 National Society for Promoting Religious Education
13 January 1818 Royal Edinburgh Public Dispensary
19 May 1818 Royal Literary Fund C187
8 May 1819 Dundee Royal Infirmary
1820 Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee
3 February 1821 Hutchesons' Hall
31 March 1821 McGill University
24 November 1821 Liverpool Royal Institution
6 February 1824 North British Insurance Company
6 February 1824 Edinburgh Academy
11 August 1824 Royal Asiatic Society
14 October 1824 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
1 November 1824 Australian Agricultural Company
9 December 1824 Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
23 April 1825 Geological Society of London
30 July 1825 Incorporated British, Irish and Colonial Silk Company
15 September 1825 Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
10 November 1825 Van Diemen's Land Company
23 February 1826 West India Company
28 June 1826 The Equitable Life Assurance Society
19 August 1826 Canada Company
15 March 1827 University of Toronto
2 August 1827 Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund
30 April 1827 London Portable Gas Company
6 February 1828 St David's College, Lampeter
3 June 1828 Institution of Civil Engineers
25 November 1828 Plymouth Union Bath Company
27 March 1829 Zoological Society of London
14 August 1829 King's College London
16 July 1829 Haytor Granite Mining Company
18 January 1830 General Lying-In Hospital
25 January 1830 Schaw Bequest
19-May 1830 Dundee Orphanage Trust
23 June 1830 Royal Academy of Music
22 November 1830 Mauritius Bank
7 March 1831 Royal Astronomical Society
2 March 1831 United General Gas Company
5 August 1831 Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd
16 May 1832 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
6 August 1832 Cambridge Philosophical Society
20 February 1834 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company
20 March 1834 British American Land Company
26 July 1834 Wearmouth Dock Company
30 September 1834 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
13 October 1834 Society for the illustration and encouragement of Practical Science
3 May 1836 Society of Licensed Victuallers
28 November 1836 University of London
28 November 1836 University College, London
13 April 1836 Colonial Bank
11 January 1837 Royal Institute of British Architects
1 June 1837 University of Durham
7 June 1837 Company of Stationers of Glasgow
11 November 1837 Millar and Peadie's School
27 January 1838 Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society
26 April 1838 Royal Naval Benevolent Society
13 August 1838 Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture
23 August 1838 Polytechnic Institution
6 September 1839 Royal Botanic Society of London
10 April 1839 Insurance Company of Scotland
26 August 1839 Mauritius Commercial Bank
26 August 1839 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
26 March 1840 Royal Agricultural Society of England
3 January 1840 Bank of British North America
29 January 1840 Pacific Steam Navigation Company
1 August 1840 Society of Solicitors of Banffshire
10 August 1840 Bank of Ceylon
11 September 1840 Australian Trust Company
11 September 1840 West India Bank
10 November 1840 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
12 February 1841 New Zealand Company
16 March 1841 Bank of Australasia
26 April 1841 Life Association of Scotland
19 June 1841 Murdoch's Boys' School
16 October 1841 Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
16 March 1842 McLachlan's Free School
30 June 1842 Artists General Benevolent Institution
15 December 1842 Licensed Victuallers Asylum
11 August 1842 British Plate Glass Company (granted for one year)
18 February 1843 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
3 April 1843 Royal Grammar School, Worcester
27 April 1843 Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses Worcester
17 July 1843 Queen's College, Birmingham
18 January 1844 Ionian Bank
8 March 1844 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
4 June 1844 Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution
26 February 1845 The Law Society
21 August 1845 Marlborough College
13 January 1845 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada
3 February 1845 Agricultural College, Cirencester
30 June 1845 Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
8 August 1845 Preston Banking Company
1845 Queen's University, Belfast
20 November 1845 Smyrna Bank
18 March 1846 Trust Company
6 April 1846 British Whale and Seal Fishery Company
19 May 1846 General Mining Association (Nova Scotia and Cape Breton)
30 October 1846 Art Union of London
30 October 1846 British West India Company
14 November 1846 Exchange Bank of Scotland
3 February 1847 Royal Society of British Artists
27 February 1847 Southern and Western Mining Company of Ireland
20 May 1847 Royal Society of Arts
20 May 1847 India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company
17 June 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
17 June 1847 Great Southern and Eastern Steam Packet Company
17 June 1847 Valentia Slab Company in Ireland
22 July 1847 South Australian Banking Company
22 July 1847 General Screw Steam Shipping Company
22 November 1847 Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland
2 March 1848 Royal Irish Fisheries Company
2 March 1848 Southern Whale Fishery Company
8 May 1848 Governesses Benevolent Institution "Schoolmistresses and Governesses Benevolent Institution"
27 June 1848 Missionary College of Saint Augustine Canterbury "St Augustine's Foundation"
4 September 1848 Chemical Society
31 October 1848 Irish Amelioration Society
16 December 1848 College of Preceptors "College of Teachers"
1 March 1849 Warneford Lunatic Asylum (Oxford)
1 May 1849 Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand
30 July 1849 Royal British Bank
5 September 1849 Banbury Banking Company
8 January 1850 The Royal Panopticon of Science and Art
14 August 1850 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
14 August 1850 Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes "1830 Housing Society"
12 December 1850 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
7 March 1851 British and Irish Peat Company
14 April 1851 Submarine Telegraph Company "Submarine Telegraph Company between Great Britain and the Continent of Europe"
5 May 1851 Educational Institute of Scotland
25 June 1851 Eastern Steam Navigation Company
7 August 1851 Oriental Bank Corporation
7 August 1851 Great Peat Working Company of Ireland
7 August 1851 South American and General Steam Navigation Company
23 October 1851 Falkland Islands Company
23 October 1851 Leith Chamber of Commerce
16 July 1852 University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario
8 December 1852 Laval University, Quebec
2 February 1852 Irish Beet Sugar Company
2 February 1852 West of Ireland Land Investment Company
5 March 1852 Colonial Gold Company
5 March 1852 Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company
5 March 1852 Irish Land Company
5 April 1852 English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
5 April 1852 General Theatrical Fund Association "The Royal Theatrical Fund"
15 May 1852 Irish Submarine Telegraph Company
15 May 1852 English Company for Working Mines in Ireland
15 June 1852 Australasian Gold Mining Company
15 June 1852 Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Company
30 June 1852 President and Managers of the Infirmary of Aberdeen
30 June 1852 African Steamship Company
18 August 1852 Liverpool and Australian Navigation Company
18 August 1852 Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company
16 October 1852 London Chartered Bank of Australia
10 November 1852 Liverpool and African Screw Steam Carrying Company
10 November 1852 English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank
28 December 1852 Crystal Palace Company
28 January 1853 Bishops College, Lennoxville, Quebec
as well as Bishop's College School then as its affiliated institute
13 December 1853 Wellington College
4 January 1853 Bucks and Oxon Union Bank
13 June 1853 Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company via Panana
13 June 1853 British Telegraph Company
13 June 1853 East Indian Iron Company
13 June 1853 Council and Committee of Queen's College "Queen's College London"
13 June 1853 International Telegraph Company
8 August 1853 Friend of the Clergy
19 August 1853 Chartered Bank of Asia
19 August 1853 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China "Standard Chartered Bank"
7 April 1854 Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
7 April 1854 City of Worcester Association for Building Dwellings for the Labouring Classes
13 September 1854 Society of Accountants in Edinburgh "Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland"
18 October 1854 London and Eastern Banking Corporation
8 February 1855 Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow
8 February 1855 Australian Mining Company
21 May 1855 Manchester and Salford Baths and Laundries Company
21 May 1855 Bank of London
6 June 1855 Colonial Fibre Company
26 June 1855 City Bank
21 July 1855 Salopian Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
21 November 1855 South Australia Company
7 December 1855 President and Managers of the Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind
7 December 1855 Bank of Egypt
25 February 1856 Unity Joint Stoke Mutual Banking Association
4 April 1856 Ottoman Bank
28 April 1856 Western Bank of London
28 April 1856 London and Paris Joint Stock Bank
7 February 1857 Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and Country of Perth
12 July 1857 Hospital for Women
6 May 1857 Agra and United Service Bank
27 August 1857 Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China
3 February 1858 University of Sydney
14 March 1859 University of Melbourne
11 January 1859 Royal Geographical Society
18 April 1859 Royal Dramatic College
6 July 1859 Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors
23 September 1859 National Benevolent Institution, founded by the late Peter Herve
22 October 1859 High School of Dundee
23 January 1860 Royal United Service Institution "Royal United Services Institute for Defence"
7 March 1860 Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
26 October 1860 London and South African Bank
4 February 1861 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862
5 August 1861 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
20 November 1861 Glasgow Art Union
26 April 1862 Bank of British Columbia
19 July 1862 Salisbury Infirmary
1 November 1862 Asylum for Idiots "Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives"
1 November 1862 Saint Andrew's College, Bradfield
3 February 1864 Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East
3 February 1864 Asiatic Banking Corporation
3 February 1864 Dundee Chamber of Commerce "Dundee and Tayside Chamber of Commerce and Industry"
3 February 1864 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
3 February 1864 Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men
7 April 1864 Natal Native Trust
7 April 1864 Department of Science and Art
9 July 1864 Friend of the Clergy
9 July 1864 Albert Memorial College in Suffolk "Framlingham College"
28 July 1864 Haileybury College "Haileybury and Imperial Service College"
1 November 1864 Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation "Printers' Charitable Corporation"
5 December 1865 Meteorological Society "Royal Meteorological Society"
24 March 1866 Glasgow Magdalene Institution
9 May 1866 Corporation for Middle Class Education in the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof
26 July 1866 Microscopical Society "Royal Microscopical Society"
28 December 1866 Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences (Royal Albert Hall)
26 February 1867 Preceptor, Patrons and Directors of Baillie's Institution in Glasgow
4 March 1867 Society of Accountants in Aberdeen
17 May 1867 Poor Clergy Relief Society "Poor Clergy Relief Corporation"
4 November 1867 Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as respects Wrecked and Damaged Property "Salvage Association"
30 July 1868 Crossley Orphan Home and School "Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School"
14 September 1868 Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland Surrendered 21 July 2010 Merged with Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
4 June 1870 Keble College, Oxford
6 July 1871 Incorporated Lay Body of the Church of England in Jamaica
17 March 1875 Royal Veterinary College
13 May 1875 Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum
27 June 1876 University of New Zealand
23 October 1876 North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
7 February 1877 Clifton College
11 July 1877 University of the Cape of Good Hope "University of South Africa"
18 March 1880 Victoria University "Victoria University of Manchester"
24 March 1880 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
2 March 1881 University of Adelaide
15 July 1881 Surveyors Institution "Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors"
26 August 1881 South Wales Institute of Engineers
26 August 1881 University College, Liverpool
26 August 1881 British North Borneo Company
18 August 1882 Selwyn College, Cambridge
18 August 1882 Royal Colonial Institute "Royal Commonwealth Society"
20 April 1883 Royal College of Music
23 August 1883 Charing Cross Hospital
12 December 1883 Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland "Scottish Law Agents Society"
26 June 1884 St. Paul's Hostel, Cambridge
26 June 1884 Institute of Actuaries Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
11 August 1884 University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire "Cardiff University "
29 November 1884 Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
30 December 1884 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the separate or Cottage principle "President and Governors of the Royal National Hospital for Disease of the Chest, Ventnor"
26 March 1885 University College of North Wales "Bangor University" C5
19 May 1885 Queen Charlotte's Lying in Hospital "Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital"
19 May 1885 Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland "Royal Institute of Chemistry"
24 June 1885 Entomological Society of London "Royal Entomological Society of London"
12 August 1885 Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commissioners 1886
8 March 1886 Princess Helena College
25 June 1886 National African Company
14 January 1887 Royal Statistical Society
7 February 1888 Trustees of the Buchanan Bequest
7 February 1888 Corporation of the Church House
3 May 1888 Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and India and the Isles of the British Seas
3 May 1888 Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England "Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem"
10 August 1888 Imperial British East Africa Company
5 July 1889 Royal Historical Society
23 July 1889 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth "Aberystwyth University"
19 August 1889 Manchester Whitworth Institute
19 August 1889 Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses "Queen's Nursing Institute"
19 August 1889 Imperial Bank of Persia "British Bank of the Middle East"
15 October 1889 British South Africa Company
8 February 1890 Institute of Journalists
21 October 1890 National Rifle Association
21 October 1890 Rossall School
21 October 1890 St. Peter's College, Radley
22 November 1890 Newspaper Press Fund
22 November 1890 Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital
9 May 1891 Royal Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen Charter surrendered 1995
30 July 1891 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
28 June 1892 Royal Free Hospital
5 August 1892 Governors of the Buchanan Retreat
16 May 1893 Royal British Nurses Association
23 November 1893 University of Wales
23 November 1893 Royal College of Organists
1894 West London Hospital
11 May 1895 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
26 November 1897 Queen Victoria Clergy Fund
3 February 1897 Library Association "Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals"
19 May 1898 Corporation of the Cranleigh and Bramley Schools
19 May 1898 Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
9 August 1898 Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburgh
7 March 1899 League of Mercy Royal Charter surrendered June 1947.
7 March 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
14 July 1899 Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow
7 October 1899 Iron and Steel Institute
7 October 1899 British Home and Hospital for Incurables
3 March 1900 University of Birmingham
17 September 1900 City and Guilds of London Institute
17 September 1900 Great Northern Central Hospital "Royal Northern Hospital"
26 November 1900 Governors of the Peabody Donation Fund
11 June 1902 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland
26 July 1902 British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies
15 September 1902 Weavers Society of Anderston
20 October 1902 Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies and other Public Bodies "Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators"
19 November 1902 Royal Economic Society
16 February 1903 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
16 February 1903 Royal Society for Home Relief to Incurables, Edinburgh
9 July 1903 Victoria University of Manchester "University of Manchester"
9 July 1903 University of Liverpool
9 July 1903 Chartered Society of Queen Square Surrendered
10 August 1903 University College of Nottingham "University of Nottingham"
11 February 1904 Royal Numismatic Society
21 April 1904 University of Leeds
15 July 1904 West India Committee
10 August 1904 British Cotton Growing Association
1904 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
29 May 1905 University of Sheffield
11 July 1905 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
7 August 1905 Liverpool Royal Infirmary
11 May 1906 British and Foreign School Society
30 June 1906 Institute of Directors
1 December 1906 Hull Royal Infirmary
11 February 1907 Royal Warrant Holders Association
1 March 1907 National Museum of Wales
1 March 1907 National Library of Wales
1 June 1907 Society of Chemical Industry
6 July 1907 Imperial College of Science and Technology "Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine"
2 November 1907 Royal Society of South Africa
1 August 1908 British Red Cross Society
21 December 1908 Bedford College for Women Since 1985 called Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Now governed by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Act 1985
17 May 1909 University of Bristol
10 August 1909 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists
22 April 1910 Cancer Hospital (Free) "Royal Marsden Hospital"
13 October 1910 Association of Deacons of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
28 November 1910 Institution of Naval Architects "Royal Institution of Naval Architects"
23 January 1911 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association
25 May 1911 Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers "Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers"
16 December 1911 Boy Scouts Association "Scout Association"
17 January 1912 Chartered Insurance Institute
14 May 1912 King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association
14 June 1912 British School at Rome
16 December 1912 King Edward VII Sanatorium "King Edward VII Hospital"
11 February 1913 Paton Trust
11 February 1913 Faculty of Surveyors of Scotland
24 June 1913 Zoological Society of Scotland "Royal Zoological Society of Scotland"
14 October 1913 Royal Asylum of Montrose
14 October 1913 Montrose Royal Infirmary
30 March 1914 Liverpool Merchants Guild
7 January 1915 Institution of Mining Engineers
7 January 1915 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
2 June 1915 University of Tasmania
23 May 1916 School of Oriental Studies, London Institution "School of Oriental and African Studies"
7 September 1916 The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves "The Society for the Promotion of Nature Conservation" "The Royal Society for Nature Conservation" "Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts" C97
16 November 1916 Imperial Trust for the encouragement of Scientific and Industrial Research
30 March 1917 Newnham College, Cambridge
14 April 1917 British Trade Corporation
10 May 1917 Imperial War Graves Commission "Commonwealth War Graves Commission"
19 May 1917 Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees
27 November 1917 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
14 January 1919 Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees
24 February 1919 Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow
15 April 1919 Representative Body of the Church in Wales
30 May 1919 Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau
30 May 1919 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney "Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability"
9 December 1919 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
9 December 1919 University College of Swansea "Swansea University" 30 August 2007
20 December 1919 King George's Fund for Sailors
20 December 1919 Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund
11 March 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
25 March 1920 Medical Research Council
25 March 1920 Forestry Commissioners
17 May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
17 May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics "Chartered Society of Physiotherapy"
28 June 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
13 October 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
22 April 1921 United Services Fund
10 June 1921 Officers Association
14 July 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
10 August 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
11 October 1921 Empire Forestry Association "Commonwealth Forestry Association"
11 October 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation "Cotton Research Corporation"
7 November 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen "Institute of Cast Metals Engineers"
13 December 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
6 February 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
3 March 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
3 March 1922 Over-Seas League "Royal Over-Seas League"
1 April 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)
5 May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland "Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland"
20 June 1922 St. John's Foundation School
10 August 1922 College of Estate Management
6 December 1922 Toc H (Incorporated) "Toc H"
6 December 1922 Girl Guides Association "The Guide Association"
29 January 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
12 March 1923 British Institute of Florence
27 March 1923 Royal Manchester College of Music
4 May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
4 May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
26 June 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
26 June 1923 Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital
11 October 1923 Dover College
21 March 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
25 June 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
25 July 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
6 February 1925 The Textile Institute
17 March 1925 British Legion "Royal British Legion"
12 October 1925 League of Nations Union
12 October 1925 London Playing Fields Society
12 October 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon "Royal Shakespeare Theatre", then "Royal Shakespeare Company'"
16 December 1925 The Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help C141
1 February 1926 University of Reading
25 February 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford "Lady Margaret College, Oxford"
25 February 1926 St Hilda's College, Oxford
25 February 1926 Birkbeck College
25 February 1926 Royal Medico-Psychological Association "Royal College of Psychiatrists"
30 April 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
1 June 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
1 June 1926 The Mothers Union
28 June 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
28 June 1926 St Hugh's College, Oxford
5 November 1926 Institute of Transport "Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport"
5 November 1926 Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture
20 November 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
14 December 1926 National Police Fund
6 February 1928 National Association of Colliery Managers
22 March 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
22 March 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
13 July 1928 College of Nursing "Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom"
1 -August 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
20 November 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital
20 November 1928 National Art Collection Fund
21 December 1928 Malvern College
29 January 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
1 March 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
21 March 1929 British Engineering Standards Association "British Standards Institution"
7 May 1929 Land Agent's Society
10 May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
10 May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
5 July 1929 National Radium Trust
5 July 1929 Institute of Hygiene Royal Institute of Public Health merged with Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and petitioned for a new charter of incorporation under the name of The Royal Society for Public Health (11 June 2008)
17 December 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford
20 January 1930 Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland
28 March 1930 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
28 July 1930 King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, Sister Agnes Founder
28 July 1930 Honourable Company of Master Mariners
28 July 1930 Oundle School
28 July 1930 East Ham Memorial Hospital
18 December 1930 Welsh National School of Medicine "University of Wales College of Medicine"
20-Mar 1931 Imperial Service College
27 March 1931 National Central Library
29 June 1931 Agricultural Research Council "Agricultural & Food Research Council"
29 June 1931 British Postgraduate Medical School "Royal Postgraduate Medical School"
1 October 1931 Glasgow Fishmongers Company
7 October 1931 Australian Chemical Institute "Royal Australian Chemical Institute"
7 October 1931 Royal Seamen's Pension Fund
11 February 1932 Universities China Committee in London
15 December 1932 National Playing Fields Association
16 March 1933 Institute of Marine Engineers
25 May 1933 London Library
26 June 1933 Westfield College, London
26 June 1933 Company of Newspaper Makers
22 March 1934 Institution of Structural Engineers
9 November 1934 Queen Mary College
20 December 1934 City of London Maternity Hospital
21 February 1935 Cheltenham Ladies College
6 June 1935 Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
13 August 1935 Institution of Engineers (India)
20 December 1935 Royal Academy of Dancing "Royal Academy of Dance"
27 October 1936 Children's Aid Society
13 April 1937 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
29 July 1937 General Infirmary at Leeds
24 February 1938 Engineers Australia
15 March 1938 Institution of Automobile Engineers
4 November 1938 London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women "Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine"
25 November 1938 Roedean School
25 May 1939 National Association of Boy's Clubs "NABC - Clubs for Young People"
25 July 1939 Imperial Cancer Research Fund
19 September 1940 British Council
30 May 1941 Australian Red Cross Society
26 June 1946 King's School, Canterbury
26 June 1946 Worshipful Company of Carmen
10 July 1946 The Arts Council of Great Britain In 1994 split in three: The Arts Council of England Scottish Arts Council Arts Council of Wales C159
10 July 1946 Institute of Fuel (1) Institute of Energy (6 February 1979) (2) Institute of Energy merged with Institute of Petroleum now called "Energy Institute" (8 May 2003)
29 January 1947 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
10 March 1947 British Postgraduate Medical Federation
28 October 1947 Scottish National War Memorial Trustees
28 October 1947 Officers Families Fund
13 November 1947 Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute
9 July 1948 University of Nottingham
13 September 1948 Wye College
13 September 1948 Institution of Municipal Engineers
25 October 1948 British and Foreign Bible Society
22 December 1948 Royal Aeronautical Society
22 December 1948 University College of the West Indies "University of the West Indies"
4 March 1949 Nature Conservancy
4 March 1949 National Institute for the Blind (1) "Royal National Institute for the Blind" (2)"Royal National Institute of Blind People"
30 June 1949 University College of North Staffordshire "University of Keele"
25 November 1949 Railway Benevolent Institution
31 March 1950 Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society "Royal Alfred Seafarers' Society"
25 April 1950 Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
25 April 1950 Standards Association of Australia
9 October 1950 National Oceanographic Council
9 October 1950 University College of Leicester "University of Leicester"
8 December 1950 Worshipful Company of Musicians
21 December 1950 Campbell College, Belfast
1 November 1951 Ceylon Red Cross Society "Sri Lanka Red Cross Society"
14 November 1951 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
24 March 1952 University of Southampton
9 April 1952 School of Pharmacy, University of London
29 April 1952 St Anne's College, Oxford
29 July 1952 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
25 November 1952 Principal and Governors of Queen Elizabeth College
04-Dec 1952 Royal Air Forces Association
1 April 1953 St Antony's College, Oxford
30 April 1953 Faculty of Radiologists "Royal College of Radiologists"
20 Jan 1954 Australian Academy of Science
13 May 1954 University of Hull
15 July 1954 Royal Naval Association
21 December 1954 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
10 February 1955 University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
7 April 1955 Cuddesdon Theological College "Ripon College Cuddesdon"
7 April 1955 Seafarers Education Service
29 July 1955 Manchester College of Science and Technology "University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology" and has now changed to "University of Manchester"
29 July 1955 Company of Farmers of the City of London
29 July 1955 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
28 October 1955 University of Exeter
9 October 1956 Royal Ballet
15 February 1957 St Edmund Hall, Oxford
22 February 1957 Institution of Chemical Engineers
15 March 1957 University of Leicester
17 May 1957 City of London Solicitor's Company
23 August 1957 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
19 February 1958 British Institute of Radiology
14 Mar 1958 Nuffield College, Oxford
07-May 1958 National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science
21 November 1958 Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants "Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy"
19 December 1958 Royal Humane Society
15 June 1959 Town Planning Institute "Royal Town Planning Institute"
21 December 1959 Fourah Bay College - The University College of Sierra Leone
8 April 1960 National Army Museum
3 August 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
26 October 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
2 August 1961 University of Sussex
2 August 1961 British Institution of Radio Engineers "Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers"
24 October 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
24 October 1961 St Peter's College, Oxford
6 December 1961 University of Keele
21 December 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
26 February 1962 University of the West Indies
2 October 1962 Magistrates Association
28 November 1962 Library Association of Australia
26 March 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
2 May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
30 May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
29 July 1963 University of York
29 July 1963 St Catherine's College, Oxford
29 July 1963 Animal Health Trust
27 November 1963 University of East Anglia
27 November 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland "University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland"
26 March 1964 Institution of Production Engineers "Institution of Manufacturing Engineers"
23 June 1964 University of Strathclyde
23 June 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
27 July 1964 University of Lancaster
27 July 1964 Council for National Academic Awards
20 November 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury "The University of Kent" 4 October 2010 C388
20 November 1964 University of Essex
29 January 1965 University of Warwick
26 February 1965 Science Research Council "Science and Engineering Research Council"
26 February 1965 British Psychological Society
4 May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
3 August 1965 Council of Engineering Institutions
3 August 1965 London Mathematical Society
29 October 1965 The Social Science Research Council "The Economic and Social Research Council" C73
31 January 1966 Heriot-Watt University
24 February 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
10 March 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
6 April 1966 City University
9 June 1966 Brunel University
28 July 1966 University of Surrey
28 July 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
20 September 1966 University of Bradford
20 September 1966 Bath University of Technology "University of Bath"
10 February 1967 University of Salford
28 June 1967 University of Dundee
28 July 1967 Royal College of Art
23 August 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
10 October 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
13 November 1967 University of Stirling
13 November 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
22 March 1968 Royal African Society
23 April 1969 The Open University
25 June 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
31 July 1969 Australian Institute of Building
28 November 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
28 November 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology "Cranfield University"
19 December 1969 Royal College of Pathologists
4 February 1970 Jockey Club (incorporating the National Hunt Committee)
4 February 1970 University of the South Pacific
28 July 1970 New University of Ulster
30 September 1970 Institute of Physics
11 March 1971 Heythrop College
22 December 1971 Chelsea College, University of London
22 December 1971 The Sports Council In 1996 split to become "The United Kingdom Sports Council" and "The English Sports Council" C319
22 December 1971 Scottish Sports Council
22 December 1971 Sports Council for Wales
28 June 1972 New Hall, Cambridge
23 October 1972 Royal College of General Practitioners
24 October 1973 Anglo-German Foundation for the study of Industrial Society
16 October 1974 Association of Certified Accountants "Association of Chartered Certified Accountants"
12 February 1975 Institute of Cost and Management Accountants "Chartered Institute of Management Accountants"
12 February 1975 Institution of Metallurgists "Institute of Materials" then to "The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining"
18 March 1975 Institute of Measurement and Control
12 November 1975 College of Law
17 March 1976 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers under title of "Chartered Institution of Building Services"
19 May 1976 Design Council
19 May 1976 Society of Industrial Artists and Designers "The Chartered Society of Designers"
9 June 1976 Darwin College, Cambridge
15 September 1976 Institute of Bankers in Scotland "Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland"
27 October 1976 Wolfson College, Cambridge
15 November 1977 University College, London
25 April 1978 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland (new)
6 February 1979 Institute of Arbitrators
14 March 1979 Building Societies Institute
14 March 1979 Institute of Biology Society of Biology
13 February 1980 King's College, London
19 March 1980 Royal Society of Chemistry (amalgamation between Royal Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Society)
28 July 1980 Institute of Building "Chartered Institute of Building"
18 February 1981 Wolfson College, Oxford
28 October 1981 Engineering Council
10 February 1982 Institute of Foresters
11 February 1983 University of Buckingham
22 June 1983 British Film Institute
18 May 1983 Crafts Council
20 April 1984 Fellowship of Engineering "Royal Academy of Engineering"
11 April 1984 Industrial Society "The Work Foundation"
25 June 1984 Institute of Housing "Chartered Institute of Housing"
25 June 1984 Institution of Environmental Health Officers "Chartered Institute of Environmental Health"
31 July 1984 University of Ulster
31 July 1984 British Computer Society
12 September 1984 Clare Hall, Cambridge
30 October 1984 Robinson College, Cambridge
5 June 1986 Linacre College, Oxford
8 July 1986 London Graduate School of Business Studies
25 November 1986 Museums and Galleries Commission
10 February 1987 Institute of Bankers (1) "Chartered Institute of Bankers" (2) "ifs School of Finance"
10 June 1987 University of London Institute of Education
23-Mar 1988 College of Ophthalmologists
27 April 1988 Motability
7 February 1989 Institute of Marketing "The Chartered Institute of Marketing"
2 August 1989 Queen Mary and Westfield College
19 December 1989 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind
1 November 1989 Goldsmiths College, University of London
7 June 1990 The Institute of Mathematics and it Applications
26 June 1990 Royal Star and Garter Homes for Disabled Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen
21 May 1991 The Henley Management College C617
11 February 1992 Royal College of Anaesthetists C417
15 July 1992 The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply C393
16 December 1993 The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 29 March 1994 C714
16 December 1993 The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 29 April 1994 C715
16 December 1993 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Surrendered 14 November 2007 C716
8 February 1994 The Arts Council of England C938
8 February 1994 The Scottish Arts Council Charter revoked by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 - 1 July 2010 C723
8 February 1994 The Arts Council of Wales 30 March 1994 C722
15 March 1994 The Institute of Taxation "The Chartered Institute of Taxation" C377
14 December 1994 The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management C663
14 December 1994 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Council Surrendered C739
11 April 1995 The Principal and Fellows of Mansfield College in the University of Oxford – known as Mansfield College, Oxford C392
11 April 1995 The President, Fellows and Students of Templeton College in the University of Oxford – known as Green Templeton College, Oxford "The Principal, Fellows and Students of Green Templeton College in the University of Oxford" C674
28 June 1995 The College of Optometrists C20
23 November 1995 The Principal and Fellows of The Manchester Academy and Harris College in the University of Oxford – known as Manchester College, Oxford C733
13 March 1996 Cardiff County Council
23 July 1996 English Sports Council C808
23 July 1996 The United Kingdom Sports Council C937
23 July 1996 College of Paediatrics and Child Health "Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health" C690
23 July 1996 Borough of North East Lincolnshire
26 June 1997 The Landscape Institute 22 August 1997 C661
22 July 1997 The President and Fellows of Lucy Cavendish College in the University of Cambridge – known as Lucy Cavendish College 575
22 July 1997 Brighton and Hove Council
11 February 1998 Medway Town Council
11 February 1998 Historic Royal Palaces 6 March 1998 C777
22 April 1998 The Master, Fellows and Scholars of St. Edmund's College in the University of Cambridge – known as St Edmund's College, Cambridge 6 July 1998 C753
15 October 1998 North Lincolnshire District Council
12 October 1999 The Prince's Trust C786
24 November 1999 The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund C364
8 February 2000 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development C210
12 July 2000 The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland C696
11 April 2001 The Institution of Incorporated Engineers C789
11 December 2001 Chartered Institution of Wastes Management C590
12 February 2002 Chartered Management Institute C812
12 February 2002 Telford and the Wrekin Borough Council
26 June 2002 The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health C647
12 June 2003 The Science Council C811
11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Engineers C813
11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Paviors C836
8 May 2004 Society for the Environment C832
27 July 2004 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain C826
13 October 2004 The Association for Science Education C816
16 December 2004 The Arts and Humanities Research Council C892
9 February 2005 The Chartered Institute of Public Relations C383
7 May 2005 The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators C850
7 May 2005 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists C746
19 July 2005 The Chartered Institute of Linguists 19 September 2006 C616
14 December 2005 The Duke of Edinburgh's Award 31 March 2006 C856
19 July 2006 The Chartered Quality Institute 23 November 2006 C475
19 July 2006 Elizabeth Phillips Hughes Hall, Cambridge – known as Hughes Hall, Cambridge 23 November 2006 C862
5 September 2006 English Association 1 December 2006 C846
10 October 2006 Historical Association 15 December 2006 C863
14 November 2006 The Royal Institute of Navigation 22 February 2007 C865
14 November 2006 Wokingham Borough 1 March 2007
7 February 2007 The Technology Strategy Board 27 March 2007 C872
7 February 2007 The Science and Technology Facilities Council 27 March 2007 C901
25 July 2007 The Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors 2 April 2008 C861
25 July 2007 The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants 4 October 2007 C877
10 October 2007 The Worshipful Company of International Bankers C866
10 October 2007 The Society for Radiological Protection 10 December 2007 C833
12 December 2007 The College of Emergency Medicine 20 February 2008 C822
12 February 2008 The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering 30 June 2008 C864
12 February 2008 The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators 24 June 2008 C871
11 June 2008 The Royal Society for Public Health 23 October 2008 C907
9 July 2008 The King's Fund 4 November 2008 C881
10 December 2008 Cheshire West and Chester Borough 1 April 2009
10 December 2008 West Lancashire Borough 20 May 2009
10 December 2008 Cheshire East Borough 1 April 2009
18 March 2009 Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors 2 September 2009 C582
13-May 2009 The Worshipful Company of Actuaries 4 September 2009 C904
8 July 2009 The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers 9 October 2009 C880
8 July 2009 Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment C913
15 October 2009 Worshipful Company of Security Professionals 15 February 2010 C917
15 October 2009 The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation 7 December 2009 C124
17 November 2009 The Principal, Fellows and Scholars of Homerton College in the University of Cambridge – known as Homerton College 11 March 2010 C915
10 February 2010 The Worshipful Company of Constructors 27 April 2010 C919
10 February 2010 The Worshipful Company of Launderers 17 June 2010 C923
10 February 2010 Institute of Internal Auditors - UK and Ireland 24 June 2010 C914
10 February 2010 Worshipful Company of Information Technologists 16 June 2010 C903
17 March 2010 The Firefighters Memorial Trust 4 October 2010 C920
12 April 2010 The Worshipful Company of Marketors 22 September 2010 C918
21 July 2010 Basildon Council 990(318)
21 July 2010 The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners C927
10 November 2010 Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals 11 March 2011 C926
16 March 2011 Worshipful Company of Arbitrators 24 April 2012 C928
7 April 2011 Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity 5 October 2011 C884
8 June 2011 Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales 6 September 2012 C496
13 July 2011 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 20 April 2012 C916
12 October 2011 Chartered Institute of Legal Executives 30 January 2012 C122
12 October 2011 Institution of Engineering Designers 30 January 2012 C707
30 May 2012 Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants 5th September 2012 C933
30 May 2012 Worshipful Company of Lightmongers 4 September 2012 C868
10 July 2012 The Association of Corporate Treasurers Came into legal effect 1 January 2013 1 November 2012 C768
17 October 2012 The British Occupational Hygiene Society 20 December 2012 C749
7 November 2012 The College of Chiropractors "The Royal College of Chiropractors" 14 March 2013 C809
7 November 2012 Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management Came into legal effect 1 April 2013 28 March 2013 C752
12 December 2012 Marylebone Cricket Club Came into legal effect 1 July 2013 10 June 2013 C947
15 May 2013 The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 26 July 2013 C951
15 May 2013 Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 19 August 2013 C956
15 May 2013 The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales 6 September 2013 C731
15 May 2013 Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers 10 October 2013 C952
10 July 2013 Chartered Association of Building Engineers 1 November 2013 C912
13 June 2013 The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors 2 December 2013 C943
13 July 2013 Worshipful Company of World Traders
30 October 2013 Recognition Panel 12 December 2013 C963
11 December 2013 Worshipful Company of Firefighters
26 May 2021 Worshipful Company of Fletchers

Kingdom of England

13th and 14th century

see table above.

15th century

  • 4 December 1416 Cutlers' Company
  • 16 February 1428 Grocers' Company
  • 22 February 1437 Brewers' Company
  • 23 August 1437 Vintners' Company
  • 26 April 1439 Cordwainers' Company
  • 1441 King's College, Cambridge
  • 1444 Leathersellers' Company
  • 8 May 1453 Armourers' and Brasiers' Company
  • 13 October 1457 Magdalen College, Oxford
  • 8 March 1462 Tallow Chandlers' Company
  • 1462 Barbers' Company
  • 20 March 1463 Ironmongers' Company
  • 16 February 1471 Dyers' Company
  • 20 January 1473 Pewterers' Company
  • 1474 Corporation of Blacksmith's of Dublin
  • 16 August 1475 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
  • 7 July 1477 Carpenters' Company
  • 16 February 1483 Wax Chandlers' Company
  • 1496 Jesus College, Cambridge

16th century

1500-1549

1550-1599

  • 13 May 1550 Sherborne School
  • 1550 French Protestant Church of London
  • 14 May 1552 Sedbergh School
  • 17 June 1552 King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge
  • 12 July 1552 King Edward's School, Bath
  • 18 December 1552 Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
  • 1552 Bedford School
  • 1552 King Edward's School, Birmingham
  • 1552 The King's School, Macclesfield
  • 26 May 1553 Giggleswick School
  • 26 June 1553 Bridewell Hospital
  • 26 June 1553 Christ's Hospital
  • 1553 King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton
  • 1553 Tonbridge School
  • 6 January 1555 Boston Grammar School, Lincolnshire
  • 1554 Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
  • 1554 Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
  • 15 July 1555 College of Arms
  • 1555 St. John's College, Oxford
  • 7 July 1556 Charity of the Priest and Poor of Ginge Petre in the County of Essex
  • 4 May 1557 Stationers' Company
  • 5 July 1558 Brentwood School
  • 21 May 1560 Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster
  • 28 February 1561 Royal Grammar School Worcester
  • 1561 Kingston Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames
  • 25 October 1561 Broderers' Company
  • 1562 St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School
  • 1562 King's Ely
  • 15 June 1563 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington
  • 1565 Exeter College, Oxford
  • 1565 Highgate School
  • 1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
  • 3 August 1568 Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company
  • 12 October 1568 Girdlers' Company
  • 14 April 1570 Joiners' Company
  • 1571 Blacksmiths' Company
  • 1571 Harrow School
  • 27 June 1571 Jesus College, Oxford
  • 9 February 1573 University College, Oxford
  • 1574 Cranbrook School, Kent
  • 1576 Sutton Valence School
  • 19 June 1578 Haberdashers' Company
  • 19 July 1581 Painter-Stainers' Company
  • 1584 Colchester Royal Grammar School
  • 1584 Uppingham School
  • 1585 Queen's College, Oxford
  • 1591 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
  • 1592 Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol
  • 1594 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
  • 3 May 1597 Hospital of St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne in Oakham

17th century

1600s

  • 22 March 1600 Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
  • 1603 Oriel College, Oxford
  • 1603 Hostmen Company of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 30 August 1603 Fishmongers' Company
  • 17 December 1603 Bishop Auckland Grammar School
  • 2 August 1604 Feltmakers' Company
  • 16 September 1605 Butchers' Company
  • 18 September 1605 Gardeners' Company
  • 9 January 1606 Fruiterers' Company
  • 19 January 1606 Drapers Company
  • 30 April 1606 Curriers' Company
  • 30 April 1607 Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley
  • 15 May 1607 Salters' Company
  • 24 November 1609 King James School, Almondbury

1610s

  • 12 April 1611 Plumbers' Company
  • 22 June 1611 Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse
  • 20 December 1611 Wadham College, Oxford
  • 13 September 1612 Don Baudains (Jersey)
  • 1613 Honourable Irish Society
  • 18 September 1614 Founders' Company
  • 1615 Wilson's Grammar School
  • 28 January 1617 Scriveners' Company
  • 6 December 1617 Society of Apothecaries of London
  • 21 June 1619 Dulwich College

1620s

  • 1621 Bowyers' Company
  • 1624 Pembroke College, Oxford
  • 14 June 1626 Upholders' Company
  • 22 October 1628 Playing Card Makers' Company
  • 16 May 1629 Spectacle Makers' Company

1630s

  • 3 July 1630 Sion College
  • 8 July 1631 Sackville College, East Grinstead
  • 22 August 1631 Clockmakers' Company
  • 14 March 1637 Gunmakers' Company
  • 12 January 1638 Horners' Company
  • 9 August 1638 Distillers' Company
  • 6 November 1638 Glaziers' Company
  • 10 September 1639 The Company of Glovers of the City of London
  • 27 February 1639 Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks

1660s

  • 28 November 1661 Glass Sellers' Company
  • 7 February 1662 New England Company
  • 15 July 1662 Royal Society
  • 1662 Bradford Grammar School
  • 16 February 1663 Cooks' Company
  • 21 December 1663 Innholders' Company
  • 1663 Framework Knitters' Company
  • 9 February 1664 Needlemakers' Company
  • 30 June 1664 Royal Scottish Corporation
  • 18 May 1666 Broadweavers and Clothiers Company of Coventry
  • 1666 King's Ely

1670s

  • 3 February 1670 Wheelwrights' Company
  • 2 May 1670 Hudson's Bay Company
  • 2 August 1670 Pattenmakers' Company
  • 29 December 1670 Tin Plate Workers' Company
  • 18 November 1672 Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull
  • 17 January 1674 Farriers' Company
  • 31 May 1677 Coachmakers' Company
  • 17 December 1677 Masons' Company
  • 1 July 1678 Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy

1680s

  • 19 October 1681 Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh
  • 8 July 1685 Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond

1690s

18th century

1700s

  • 16 June 1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
  • 19 April 1706 Grey Coat Hospital in Tothill Fields of the Foundation of Queen Anne

Kingdom of Scotland

16th century

Kingdom of Great Britain

18th century

1700s

  • 15 July 1704 Bermondsey tanners Surrey/ Greater London

1710s

  • 23 May 1711 Blanket Weavers in Witney, Oxfordshire
  • 3 December 1711 Loriners' Company
  • 29 July 1714 Worcester College, Oxford
  • 24 July 1718 French Protestant Hospital
  • 27 July 1719 Music Society for Carrying on Operas and other entertainments

1720s

  • 22 June 1720 London Assurance Corporation
  • 22 June 1720 Royal Exchange Assurance
  • 1727 The Royal Bank of Scotland
  • 31 July 1729 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax

1730s

1740s

  • 28 April 1741 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Norwich and Norfolk
  • 13 April 1742 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Suffolk
  • 5 July 11 October British Linen Bank
  • 29 April 1747 Governors of the Charity for the relief of the poor Widows and Orphans of Beneficed Clergymen or having Curacys in the County of Essex the Deanery of Braughing and Archdeaconry of St. Albans, County of Hertford and Diocese of London

1750s

  • 2 November 1751 Society of Antiquaries of London
  • 9 December 1758 London Hospital

1760s

  • 8 June 1765 Bethel Hospital, Norwich

1770s

  • 19 June 1773 Carron Company
  • 1773 Royal Medical Society
  • 27 January 1774 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen

1780s

  • 24 March 1781 Governors of the possessions etc. of the Free Chapel of Hindon within the parish of East Knoyle, Wiltshire
  • 29 March 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 6 May 1783 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  • 9 June 1783 Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
  • 10 July 1786 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
  • 17 May 1787 Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

1790s

  • 26 August 1790 Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain
  • 21 December 1791 Glasgow Royal Infirmary
  • 9 January 1792 Society for the Benefit of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
  • 30 October 1794 Christian Faith Society
  • 6 June 1796 Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
  • 24 January 1797 Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
  • 28 June 1798 Ayr Academy

19th century

1800s

United Kingdom

19th century

1800s

1810s

  • 23 May 1817 National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales
  • 13 January 1818 Royal Edinburgh Public Dispensary
  • 19 May 1818 Royal Literary Fund
  • 8 May 1819 Dundee Royal Infirmary

1820s

  • 1820 Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee
  • 31 March 1821 McGill University, Montreal
  • 6 February 1824 Edinburgh Academy
  • 11 August 1824 Royal Asiatic Society
  • 14 October 1824 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
  • 1 November 1824 Australian Agricultural Company
  • 9 December 1824 Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
  • 23 April 1825 Geological Society of London
  • 15 September 1825 Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
  • 10 November 1825 Van Diemen's Land Company
  • 28 June 1826 University Life Assurance Society
  • 19 August 1826 Canada Company
  • 15 March 1827 University of Toronto
  • 2 August 1827 Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund
  • 6 February 1828 St David's College, Lampeter
  • 3 June 1828 Institution of Civil Engineers
  • 27 March 1829 Zoological Society of London
  • 14 August 1829 King's College London

1830s

  • 18 January 1830 General Lying-in Hospital
  • 23 June 1830 Royal Academy of Music
  • 7 March 1831 Royal Astronomical Society
  • 6 August 1832 Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • 20 March 1834 British American Land Company
  • 30 September 1834 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
  • 3 May 1836 Society of Licensed Victuallers
  • 28 November 1836 University of London
  • 11 January 1837 Royal Institute of British Architects
  • 1 June 1837 University of Durham
  • 7 June 1837 Company of Stationers of Glasgow
  • 26 April 1838 Royal Naval Benevolent Society
  • 13 August 1838 Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture
  • 26 August 1839 Mauritius Commercial Bank

1840s

  • 26 March 1840 Royal Agricultural Society of England
  • 29 January 1840 Pacific Steam Navigation Company
  • 1 August 1840 Society of Solicitors of Banffshire
  • 10 November 1840 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
  • 16 March 1841 Bank of Australasia
  • 16 October 1841 Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
  • 16 March 1842 McLachlan's Free School
  • 30 June 1842 Artists General Benevolent Institution
  • 15 December 1842 Licensed Victuallers Asylum
  • 18 February 1843 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • 3 April 1843 Royal Grammar School Worcester
  • 27 April 1843 Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses Worcester
  • 18 January 1844 Ionian Bank
  • 8 March 1844 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
  • 26 February 1845 The Law Society
  • 21 August 1845 Marlborough College
  • 13 January 1845 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada
  • 30 June 1845 Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
  • 1845 Queen's College of Belfast (now Queen's University Belfast)
  • 1846 Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
  • 3 February 1847 Royal Society of British Artists
  • 20 May 1847 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)
  • 17 July 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
  • 8 May 1848 Governesses Benevolent Institution
  • 27 June 1848 Missionary College of Saint Augustine Canterbury
  • 4 September 1848 Chemical Society
  • 16 December 1848 College of Preceptors
  • 1 March 1849 Warneford Lunatic Asylum (Oxford)
  • 30 July 1849 Royal British Bank

1850s

  • 14 August 1850 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
  • 12 December 1850 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • 5 May 1851 Educational Institute of Scotland
  • 23 October 1851 Falkland Islands Company
  • 23 October 1851 Leith Chamber of Commerce
  • 16 July 1852 University of Trinity College, Toronto
  • 8 December 1852 Université Laval, Quebec
  • 5 April 1852 General Theatrical Fund Association
  • 28 January 1853 Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec
  • 13 December 1853 Wellington College
  • 13 June 1853 Council and Committee of Queen's College
  • 19 August 1853 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
  • 7 April 1854 Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
  • 7 April 1854 City of Worcester Association for Building Dwellings for the Labouring Classes
  • 13 September 1854 Society of Accountants in Edinburgh
  • 18 October 1854 London and Eastern Banking Corporation
  • 7 February 1857 Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and Country of Perth
  • 12 July 1857 Hospital for Women
  • 3 February 1858 University of Sydney
  • 11 January 1859 Royal Geographical Society
  • 6 July 1859 Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors
  • 23 September 1859 National Benevolent Institution, founded by the late Peter Herve
  • 22 October 1859 High School of Dundee

1860s

  • 23 January 1860 Royal United Service Institution
  • 7 March 1860 Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
  • 5 August 1861 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • 20 November 1861 Glasgow Art Union
  • 19 July 1862 Salisbury Infirmary
  • 1 November 1862 Asylum for Idiots
  • 1 November 1862 Saint Andrew's College, Bradfield
  • 3 February 1864 Dundee Chamber of Commerce
  • 3 February 1864 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
  • 3 February 1864 Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men
  • 7 April 1864 Natal Native Trust
  • 9 July 1864 Friend of the Clergy
  • 9 July 1864 Albert Middle Class College in Suffolk
  • 28 July 1864 Haileybury College
  • 1 November 1864 Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation
  • 5 December 1865 Meteorological Society
  • 9 May 1866 Corporation for Middle Class Education in the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof
  • 26 July 1866 Microscopical Society
  • 28 December 1866 Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences (Royal Albert Hall)
  • 26 February 1867 Preceptor, Patrons and Directors of Baillie's Institution in Glasgow
  • 4 November 1867 Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as respects Wrecked and Damaged Property
  • 30 July 1868 Crossley Orphan Home and School
  • 14 September 1868 Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland

1870s

  • 4 June 1870 Keble College, Oxford
  • 6 July 1871 Incorporated Lay Body of the Church of England in Jamaica
  • 17 March 1875 Royal Veterinary College
  • 13 May 1875 Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum
  • 23 October 1876 North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
  • 7 February 1877 Clifton College
  • 11 July 1877 University of the Cape of Good Hope

1880s

  • 18 March 1880 Victoria University (UK)
  • 24 March 1880 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • 2 March 1881 University of Adelaide
  • 15 July 1881 Surveyors' Institution
  • 31 July 1881 Royal College Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 26 August 1881 South Wales Institute of Engineers
  • 18 August 1882 Selwyn College, Cambridge
  • 18 August 1882 Royal Colonial Institute
  • 20 April 1883 Royal College of Music
  • 23 August 1883 Charing Cross Hospital
  • 12 December 1883 Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland
  • 26 June 1884 St. Paul's Hostel, Cambridge
  • 29 July 1884 Institute of Actuaries
  • 11 August 1884 University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
  • 29 November 1884 Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
  • 30 December 1884 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the separate or Cottage principle
  • 26 March 1885 University College of North Wales
  • 19 May 1885 Queen Charlotte's Lying in Hospital
  • 19 May 1885 Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
  • 24 June 1885 Entomological Society of London
  • 8 March 1886 Princess Helena College
  • 14 January 1887 Royal Statistical Society
  • 27 November 1887Belfast Royal Academy
  • 7 February 1888 Trustees of the Buchanan Bequest
  • 7 February 1888 Corporation of the Church House
  • 3 May 1888 Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England
  • 5 July 1889 Royal Historical Society
  • 23 July 1889 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now the University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
  • 19 August 1889 Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
  • 19 August 1889 Imperial Bank of Persia
  • 15 October 1889 British South Africa Company

1890s

  • 8 February 1890 Institute of Journalists
  • 21 October 1890 National Rifle Association
  • 21 October 1890 Rossall School
  • 21 October 1890 St. Peter's College, Radley
  • 22 November 1890 Newspaper Press Fund
  • 9 May 1891 Royal Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen
  • 30 July 1891 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (now the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys)
  • 5 August 1892 Governors of the Buchanan Retreat
  • 16 May 1893 Royal British Nurses' Association
  • 23 November 1893 University of Wales
  • 23 November 1893 Royal College of Organists
  • 1894 West London Hospital
  • 11 May 1895 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • 26 November 1897 Queen Victoria Clergy Fund
  • 17 February 1898 Library Association
  • 19 May 1898 Corporation of the Cranleigh and Bramley Schools
  • 19 May 1898 Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
  • 9 August 1898 Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburgh
  • 7 March 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
  • 14 July 1899 Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow
  • 7 October 1899 British Home and Hospital for Incurables

20th century

1900s

  • 3 March 1900 University of Birmingham
  • 17 September 1900 City and Guilds of London Institute
  • 17 September 1900 Great Northern Central Hospital
  • 27 March 1901 Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
  • 26 July 1902 British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies
  • 21 August 1902 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (revised 1978)
  • 15 September 1902 Weavers Society of Anderston
  • 20 October 1902 Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies and other Public Bodies
  • 19 November 1902 Royal Economic Society
  • 16 February 1903 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
  • 16 February 1903 Royal Society for Home Relief to Incurables, Edinburgh
  • 9 July 1903 Victoria University of Manchester
  • 9 July 1903 University of Liverpool
  • 9 July 1903 Chartered Society of Queen Square
  • 10 August 1903 University College of Nottingham
  • 11 February 1904 Royal Numismatic Society
  • 21 April 1904 University of Leeds
  • 15 July 1904 West India Committee
  • 10 August 1904 British Cotton Growing Association
  • 24 October 1904 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • 29 May 1905 University of Sheffield
  • 11 July 1905 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
  • 11 May 1906 British and Foreign School Society
  • 30 June 1906 Institute of Directors
  • 1 December 1906 Hull Royal Infirmary
  • 11 February 1907 Royal Warrant Holders Association
  • 1 March 1907 National Museum of Wales
  • 1 March 1907 National Library of Wales
  • 1 June 1907 Society of Chemical Industry
  • 6 July 1907 Imperial College of Science and Technology
  • 2 November 1907 Royal Society of South Africa
  • 21 December 1908 Bedford College for Women
  • 1 August 1908 British Red Cross Society
  • 17 May 1909 University of Bristol
  • 10 August 1909 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists

1910s

  • 22 April 1910 Cancer Hospital (Free)
  • 13 October 1910 Association of Deacons of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
  • 28 November 1910 Institution of Naval Architects
  • 23 January 1911 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association
  • 25 May 1911 Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
  • 16 December 1911 Scout Association
  • 17 January 1912 Chartered Insurance Institute
  • 14 May 1912 King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association
  • 14 June 1912 British School at Rome
  • 16 December 1912 King Edward VII Sanatorium
  • 11 February 1913 Paton Trust
  • 24 June 1913 Zoological Society of Scotland
  • 7 October 1913 Royal West of England Academy
  • 14 October 1913 Royal Asylum of Montrose
  • 14 October 1913 Montrose Royal Infirmary
  • 30 March 1914 Liverpool Merchants Guild
  • 7 January 1915 Institution of Mining Engineers
  • 7 January 1915 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
  • 2 June 1915 University of Tasmania
  • 23 May 1916 School of Oriental Studies, London Institution
  • 7 September 1916 Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves
  • 30 March 1917 Newnham College, Cambridge
  • 10 May 1917 Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
  • 19 May 1917 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
  • 27 November 1917 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
  • 14 January 1919 Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees
  • 24 February 1919 Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow
  • 15 April 1919 Representative Body of the Church in Wales
  • 30 May 1919 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney
  • 9 December 1919 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
  • 9 December 1919 University College of Swansea (now Swansea University)
  • 20 December 1919 King George's Fund for Sailors
  • 20 December 1919 Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund

1920s

  • 11 March 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
  • 25 March 1920 Medical Research Council
  • 25 March 1920 Forestry Commissioners
  • 17 May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
  • 17 May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics
  • 28 June 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  • 13 October 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
  • 10 June 1921 Officers' Association
  • 14 July 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
  • 10 August 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • 11 October 1921 Empire Forestry Association
  • 11 October 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation
  • 7 November 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen
  • 13 December 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
  • 6 February 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • 3 March 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
  • 3 March 1922 Over-Seas League
  • 1 April 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)
  • 5 May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
  • 20 June 1922 St. John's Foundation School
  • 10 August 1922 College of Estate Management
  • 6 December 1922 Toc H (Incorporated)
  • 6 December 1922 Girl Guides Association
  • 29 January 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
  • 12 March 1923 British Institute of Florence
  • 4 May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
  • 4 May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
  • 26 June 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
  • 11 October 1923 Dover College
  • 21 March 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 25 June 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
  • 25 July 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
  • 6 February 1925 The Textile Institute
  • 17 March 1925 British Legion
  • 12 October 1925 London Playing Fields Society
  • 12 October 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • 16 December 1925 Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
  • 1 February 1926 University of Reading
  • 25 February 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
  • 25 February 1926 St. Hilda's College, Oxford
  • 25 February 1926 Birkbeck College
  • 25 February 1926 Royal Medico Psychological Association
  • 30 April 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
  • 1 June 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
  • 1 June 1926 The Mothers' Union
  • 28 June 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
  • 28 June 1926 St. Hugh's College, Oxford
  • 5 November 1926 Institute of Transport
  • 20 November 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
  • 14 December 1926 National Police Fund
  • 22 March 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 22 March 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
  • 13 July 1928 Royal College of Nursing
  • 14 August 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
  • 20 November 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital (now the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine)
  • 20 November 1928 National Art Collection Fund
  • 21 December 1928 Malvern College
  • 29 January 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
  • 1 March 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
  • 21 March 1929 British Engineering Standards Association
  • 10 May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
  • 10 May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
  • 5 July 1929 Institute of Hygiene
  • 17 December 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford

1930s

  • 20 January 1930 Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland
  • 28 March 1930 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  • 28 July 1930 King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, Sister Agnes Founder
  • 28 July 1930 Honourable Company of Master Mariners
  • 28 July 1930 Oundle School
  • 28 July 1930 East Ham Memorial Hospital
  • 18 December 1930 Welsh National School of Medicine
  • 29 June 1931 British Postgraduate Medical School
  • 1 October 1931 Glasgow Fishmongers Company
  • 7 October 1931 Australian Chemical Institute
  • 7 October 1931 Royal Seamen's Pension Fund
  • 11 February 1932 Universities China Committee in London
  • 15 December 1932 National Playing Fields Association
  • 16 March 1933 Institute of Marine Engineers
  • 25 May 1933 London Library
  • 26 June 1933 Westfield College, London
  • 22 March 1934 Institution of Structural Engineers
  • 9 November 1934 Queen Mary College
  • 20 December 1934 City of London Maternity Hospital
  • 21 February 1935 Cheltenham Ladies' College
  • 6 June 1935 Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
  • 13 August 1935 Institution of Engineers (India)
  • 20 December 1935 Royal Academy of Dancing
  • 13 April 1937 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
  • 29 July 1937 General Infirmary at Leeds
  • 24 February 1938 Engineers Australia
  • 25 November 1938 Roedean School
  • 25 May 1939 National Association of Boy's Clubs
  • 25 July 1939 Imperial Cancer Research Fund

1940s

  • 19 September 1940 British Council
  • 30 May 1941 Australian Red Cross Society
  • 26 June 1946 King's School, Canterbury
  • 26 June 1946 Worshipful Company of Carmen
  • 10 July 1946 Arts Council of Great Britain
  • 10 July 1946 Institute of Fuel
  • 29 January 1947 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • 10 March 1947 British Postgraduate Medical Federation
  • 28 October 1947 Scottish National War Memorial Trustees
  • 28 October 1947 Officers Families Fund
  • 9 July 1948 University of Nottingham
  • 13 September 1948 Wye College
  • 13 September 1948 Institution of Municipal Engineers
  • 25 October 1948 British and Foreign Bible Society
  • 22 December 1948 Royal Aeronautical Society
  • 22 December 1948 University College of the West Indies
  • 4 March 1949 National Institute for the Blind
  • 30 June 1949 University College of North Staffordshire
  • 25 November 1949 Railway Benevolent Institution

1950s

  • 31 March 1950 Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society
  • 25 April 1950 Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
  • 25 April 1950 Standards Association of Australia
  • 9 October 1950 University College of Leicester
  • 8 December 1950 Worshipful Company of Musicians
  • 21 December 1950 Campbell College, Belfast
  • 1 November 1951 Ceylon Red Cross Society
  • 14 November 1951 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
  • 24 March 1952 University of Southampton
  • 9 April 1952 School of Pharmacy, University of London
  • 29 April 1952 St Anne's College, Oxford
  • 29 July 1952 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
  • 25 November 1952 Principal and Governors of Queen Elizabeth College
  • 4 December 1952 Royal Air Forces Association
  • 1 April 1953 St Antony's College, Oxford
  • 30 April 1953 Faculty of Radiologists
  • 20 January 1954 Australian Academy of Science
  • 13 May 1954 University of Hull
  • 15 July 1954 Royal Naval Association
  • 21 December 1954 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
  • 10 February 1955 University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • 7 April 1955 Cuddesdon Theological College
  • 7 April 1955 Seafarers Education Service
  • 29 July 1955 Manchester College of Science and Technology
  • 29 July 1955 Company of Farmers of the City of London
  • 29 July 1955 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
  • 28 October 1955 University of Exeter
  • 9 October 1956 Royal Ballet
  • 15 February 1957 St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
  • 22 February 1957 Institution of Chemical Engineers
  • 15 March 1957 University of Leicester
  • 17 May 1957 City of London Solicitors' Company
  • 23 August 1957 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
  • 19 February 1958 British Institute of Radiology
  • 14 March 1958 Nuffield College, Oxford
  • 21 November 1958 Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants
  • 19 December 1958 Royal Humane Society
  • 15 June 1959 Town Planning Institute
  • 21 December 1959 Fourah Bay College - The University College of Sierra Leone

1960s

  • 8 April 1960 National Army Museum
  • 3 August 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
  • 26 October 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
  • 2 August 1961 University of Sussex
  • 24 October 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
  • 24 October 1961 St. Peter's College, Oxford
  • 6 December 1961 University of Keele
  • 21 December 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
  • 26 February 1962 University of the West Indies
  • 2 October 1962 Magistrates' Association
  • 28 November 1962 Library Association of Australia
  • 26 March 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
  • 2 May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
  • 30 May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
  • 29 July 1963 University of York
  • 29 July 1963 St. Catherine's College, Oxford
  • 29 July 1963 Animal Health Trust
  • 27 November 1963 University of East Anglia
  • 27 November 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland
  • 26 March 1964 Institution of Production Engineers
  • 23 June 1964 University of Strathclyde
  • 23 June 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
  • 27 July 1964 University of Lancaster
  • 20 November 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury
  • 20 November 1964 University of Essex
  • 29 January 1965 University of Warwick
  • 26 February 1965 Science Research Council
  • 26 February 1965 British Psychological Society
  • 4 May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
  • 3 August 1965 London Mathematical Society
  • 29 October 1965 Social Science Research Council
  • 31 January 1966 Heriot-Watt University
  • 24 February 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
  • 10 March 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
  • 6 April 1966 City University, London
  • 9 June 1966 Brunel University
  • 28 July 1966 University of Surrey
  • 28 July 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
  • 20 September 1966 University of Bradford
  • 20 September 1966 Bath University of Technology
  • 10 February 1967 University of Salford
  • 28 June 1967 University of Dundee
  • 28 July 1967 Royal College of Art
  • 23 August 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
  • 10 October 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
  • 13 November 1967 University of Stirling
  • 13 November 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
  • 22 March 1968 Royal African Society
  • 1969 Royal Hong Kong Police, reverted to Hong Kong Police after Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
  • 23 April 1969 The Open University
  • 25 June 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
  • -July 1969 Australian Institute of Building
  • 28 November 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
  • 28 November 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology
  • 19 December 1969 Royal College of Pathologists

1970s

  • 4 February 1970 Jockey Club (incorporating the National Hunt Committee)
  • 4 February 1970 University of the South Pacific
  • 28 July 1970 New University of Ulster
  • 30 September 1970 Institute of Physics
  • 11 March 1971 Heythrop College
  • 22 December 1971 Chelsea College, University of London
  • 22 December 1971 Sports Council
  • 22 December 1971 Scottish Sports Council
  • 22 December 1971 Sports Council for Wales
  • 28 June 1972 New Hall, Cambridge
  • 23 October 1972 Royal College of General Practitioners
  • 24 October 1973 Anglo-German Foundation for the study of Industrial Society
  • 16 October 1974 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  • 12 February 1975 Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
  • 12 February 1975 Institution of Metallurgists
  • 18 March 1975 Institute of Measurement and Control
  • 12 November 1975 College of Law
  • 17 March 1976 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers under title of "Chartered Institution of Building Services"
  • 19 May 1976 Design Council
  • 19 May 1976 Society of Industrial Artists and Designers
  • 9 June 1976 Darwin College, Cambridge
  • 15 September 1976 Institute of Bankers in Scotland
  • 27 October 1976 Wolfson College, Cambridge
  • 15 November 1977 University College London
  • 25 April 1978 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland (new)
  • 6 February 1979 Institute of Arbitrators
  • 14 March 1979 Building Societies Institute
  • 14 March 1979 Institute of Biology

1980s

  • 13 February 1980 King's College London
  • 19 March 1980 Royal Society of Chemistry (amalgamation between Royal Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Society)
  • 28 July 1980 Chartered Institute of Building
  • 18 February 1981 Wolfson College, Oxford
  • 28 October 1981 Engineering Council
  • 10 February 1982 Institute of Foresters
  • 11 February 1983 University of Buckingham
  • 22 June 1983 British Film Institute
  • 18 May 1983 Crafts Council
  • 20 April 1984 Fellowship of Engineering
  • 11 April 1984 Industrial Society
  • 25 June 1984 Institute of Housing
  • 25 June 1984 Institution of Environmental Health Officers
  • 31 July 1984 University of Ulster
  • 31 July 1984 British Computer Society
  • 12 September 1984 Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • 30 October 1984 Robinson College, Cambridge
  • 5 June 1986 Linacre College, Oxford
  • 8 July 1986 London Graduate School of Business Studies
  • 10 February 1987 Institute of Bankers
  • 10 June 1987 University of London Institute of Education
  • 23 March 1988 College of Ophthalmologists
  • 27 April 1988 Motability
  • 7 February 1989 The Chartered Institute of Marketing
  • 2 August 1989 Queen Mary and Westfield College
  • 19 December 1989 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind
  • 1 November 1989 Goldsmiths College, University of London

1990s

  • 7 June 1990 The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  • 26 June 1990 Royal Star and Garter Home
  • 21 May 1991 The Henley Management College
  • 11 February 1992 Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • 15 July 1992 Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
  • 16 December 1993 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  • 16 December 1993 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
  • 16 December 1993 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
  • 8 February 1994 Arts Council of England
  • 8 February 1994 Scottish Arts Council
  • 8 February 1994 Arts Council of Wales
  • 15 March 1994 The Chartered Institute of Taxation
  • 14 December 1994 Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
  • 14 December 1994 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
  • 11 April 1995 Mansfield College, Oxford
  • 11 April 1995 Templeton College, Oxford
  • 28 June 1995 The College of Optometrists
  • 23 November 1995 Manchester College, Oxford
  • 13 March 1996 York Borough Council
  • 13 March 1996 Cardiff County Council (?)
  • 26 June 1996 Sedgefield Borough Council
  • 23 July 1996 North East Lincolnshire Borough Council
  • 23 July 1996 Sport England
  • 23 July 1996 UK Sport
  • 23 July 1996 College Paediatrics and Child Health
  • 26 June 1997 Landscape Institute
  • 22 July 1997 Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
  • 22 July 1997 Brighton and Hove Borough Council
  • 11 February 1998 Medway Borough Council
  • 11 February 1998 Historic Royal Palaces
  • 22 April 1998 St Edmund's College, Cambridge
  • 15 October 1998 North Lincolnshire Borough Council
  • 12 October 1999 The Prince's Trust
  • 24 November 1999 Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

21st century

  • 8 February 2000 Institute of Personnel and Development
  • 12 July 2000 The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
  • 11 April 2001 Institution of Incorporated Engineers
  • 11 December 2001 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
  • 12 February 2002 Chartered Management Institute
  • 12 February 2002 Telford and the Wrekin Borough Council
  • 26 June 2002 Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
  • 12 June 2003 The Science Council
  • 15 December 2003 Thames Valley University
  • 11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Engineers
  • 11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Paviors
  • 8 May 2004 Society for the Environment
  • 27 July 2004 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
  • 13 October 2004 Association for Science Education
  • 22 July 2005 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
  • 10 December 2007 Society for Radiological Protection
  • 11 March 2010 Homerton College, University of Cambridge
  • 15 May 2013 The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
  • 15 May 2013 Welsh Livery Guild
  • 17 January 2014 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences
  • 1 April 2015 Chartered Trading Standards Institute
  • 22 March 2018 Police Roll of Honour Trust
  • 1 December 2018 National Citizen Service

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