Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
…on the former Perryn estate in Acton, on land bequeathed to the company by Alderman John Perryn in 1657. In 1891, the Goldsmiths' Company founded the Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute, becoming Goldsmiths' College then Goldsmiths, University of London. One of the few Livery Companies today playing a formal role in its ancient trade…