Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers

One of the Livery Companies of the City of London and is ranked at 60.

1629 The Company was founded by a Royal Charter of Charles I

1809 it was granted the status of a Livery Company

The Company acquired the right, however, to set examinations that opticians had to pass before practising. This power was surrendered to the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (now titled the College of Optometrists) in 1979, who took over the examination of optometrists, and in 1986 power of examination for dispensing opticians was surrendered to the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO)

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