The driving force behind the founding one of the world's most respected maritime safety organisations was the inexperience of unregulated pilots on the River Thames. A group of worried mariners applied to King Henry Ⅷ for the right to regulate pilotage on London's river and, on 20 May 1514, a royal charter was granted to the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and Undivided Trinity and of Saint Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent. Better known as Trinity House, the organisation is still controlled by a master and council of 31 brethren and celebrates its 500th anniversary with an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
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