Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers

Its role was to regulate the glass selling and pot-making industries within the City of London, and to ensure quality and fair trade.

Today the role of the company is to stimulate interest in the many and varied aspects of glass and carry out charitable works, with special emphasis on education.

This, together with an earlier charter dated 1635 which was not incorporated by the Court of Aldermen, for reasons which are now obscure, are both still held by the company.

The 1630s were troubled times and problems in the glass trade periodically collided with a background of political unrest.

Working under the patronage of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers, George Ravenscroft made his famous discovery of lead crystal.