Photo by Caroline Kearsley
Frank King has sent in this photograph of two BSS members taken at the Installation Dinner of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers on 28 January. Earlier in the evening, Joanna Migdal had been installed as the new Master of the Company and she is seen here sitting in the Magisterial Chair. The material from which her dress is made is decorated with clocks and watches. At the end of the Dinner, Joanna made her inaugural speech as the new Master. Frank was invited to reply. He is wearing the number two dress of ‘The University Bellringer and Keeper of the University Clock’. This unusual Cambridge post dates back to the 15th century. Oxford doesn’t have an equivalent and one wonders how they ever ran to a timetable. Frank mentioned a number of notable sundial makers who have been Masters of the Clockmakers’ Company ranging from Elias Allen (1636) to Joanna Migdal (2020). You can hear Frank’s speech below.
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