Worshipful Company of Barbers

One of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ranked at 17th


 * Its records date back to 1308, with Richard le Barber as the first to hold the office of Master; it received a Royal Charter 1462 and became a Company: merging with the Surgeon's Guild in 1540 to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons.
 * The Surgeons, who had linked up, but formed their own Guild 1368
 * 1745 The surgeons form the Company of Surgeons

Its hall is Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Square in Aldersgate ward, within the precincts of the Barbican estate, being the second hall.

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