Matthew Taylor CBE previously led the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) between 2006 and 2021
RSA Address: 8 John Adam Street, London
Brian Clivaz ,director of the famous L’Escargot Restaurant in Soho,
CEO of the Devonshire Club,
is a Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman – The Worshipful Company of Cooks, Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and
Fellow The ROYAL SOCIETY ARTS thecriticsguide.com/sevensins/290/…
The Devonshire Club is part of Le Cercle de Wallonie, along with St Jame’s Club, The Sloane Club, Phyllis Court Club and Royal Dublin Society web.archive.org/web/2020102513…
Baron Patrick de Caters is a member of Cercle de Wallonië, along with ... archive.ph/LRrEw
"Soho-based L’Escargot launched a pop-up restaurant L’Escargot Sur Mer
George Pell runs the restaurant" eadt.co.uk/things-to-do/a…
he organised parties for Kylie Minogue, Paul McCartney & Damien Hirst. He then worked at the Arts Club as night club manager gastronomes.org/2018/06/18/new…
He organised parties for Sotheby’s, Goldman Sachs, New York Times, Zaha Hadid and Tracey Emin
George is a member of the Devonshire Society, FSB Groucho, Black’s and an Ambassador for the Jockey Club.
Pell also arranged evenings for Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, David Beckham and Mark Ronson
In 2015, Ronson became a patron of the Amy Winehouse Foundation..
THR : "it’s hard to imagine [Cedars-Sinai] was founded as a 12-bed facility in a Victorian house near downtown in 1902. Then called Kaspare Cohn Hospital, it was run by the Hebrew Benevolent Society...
Later renamed Cedars of Lebanon, an Old Testament reference to the timber used for Solomon’s Temple, it expanded into a grand Art Deco building on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood [1930] & tapped the wallets of film moguls Jack Warner and Joseph Schenck, as well as Will Rogers...
"In 2010 the Mappins decided to hold a birthday celebration in honour of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Camelot Castle, to “express our tremendous appreciation for what the President of Kazakhstan has done for our family”"..🤔
(exactly what this had been was not revealed). Bizarrely, the local Salvation Army were somehow recruited to sing Happy Birthday to the notoriously corrupt autocrat."..🤔
Mappin discovered Scientology while trying unsuccessfully to become a Hollywood star in the 1990s (the only part he succeeded in landing was in a softcore porn movie, alongside the unfortunately named Julie Strain)...
May 12, 2000
"The Vatican named Bishop Edward M. Egan yesterday to be the ninth archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal John O'Connor as head of the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic diocese...🤔
As bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., and as a Vatican jurist, Egan proved himself part intellectual, part populist, and a man comfortable with the press.".. web.archive.org/web/2017082820…
Egan, 68, has split his time between the United States and Rome. He served for almost four years under O'Connor in the mid-1980s before moving on to Bridgeport, where he is credited with bringing in new priests and shoring up church finances.".. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27…
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, England.
The name Hackremco was a temporary company name used during the corporate restructuring that led to the formation of the modern InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) PLC in 2005
Robert E. Grady was noted early in his career by Newsweek as “one of three thirty-somethings to watch” (along with Condoleezza Rice and Robert Zoellick) and the “polished No. 2” at the Office of Management and Budget in George H. W. Bush administration..