Master, Wardens & Clerk

Ivor Macklin

Despite the best efforts of his schoolteachers, Ivor managed to avoid passing any of his A levels. Having left school and spending 4 years working in careers for which he was woefully unsuited, Ivor decided to invest in a ladder and a bucket and become a self-employed window cleaner and handyperson - it was 1983 and he was of the tender age of twenty-three.

Ivor progressed from window cleaning, gaining a City and Guilds in painting and decorating and during this time was awarded the prestigious Painter-Stainers Painting and Decorating prize. He founded his own company to pursue this career which more suited his artistic and flamboyant nature.

Forty years on, Ivor closed his company having won the Painting and Decorating Association Trophy as the premier decorator in the country for the design and decoration of the Painters’ Court Room which he hopes many of you will experience when you visit Painters’ Hall during his year as Master, as well as a host of other national awards [not mentioned for brevity!].

Looking back on his career he is most proud of his apprenticeship scheme that won the CITB employer of the year in 2005.

Ivor’s hobbies include adding to his collection of speeding fines while motorcycling across European countries, sailing which he has recently rediscovered by gaining his day skipper licence, and maintaining his 15^th Century thatched cottage in Hever, where he lives with his very tolerant and lovely wife, Wendy and seven bantam chickens. 

David Hitchcock OBE

David has spent many years in the City starting at Goldman Sachs in New York then spending 17 years at JPMorgan where he was a Managing Director and ran the Bank’s most senior Client Relationships in London and Europe. 

He has spent the last ten years running his own businesses including rescuing high Precision Engineering Companies across the UK as well as listing growth companies onto the London Stock Exchange. 

Prior to his City Career David served as a Captain in the Sixth Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles in Asia and Belize having commanded an infantry platoon on the Northern Ireland border. He is fluent in Nepalese and has made many visits to Nepal when he ran all the money for the Gurkha Welfare Trust. 

He is a Graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and of Pembroke College Cambridge where he studied History and gained a Boxing Blue as well as playing rugby for the university. 

In his spare time he plays the piano and holds a variety of Charitable Trusteeships in the military and educational sectors. 

Dr Philip Broadhead

Philip Broadhead was born and brought up in Sheffield and settled in London in 1973. He studied History at the University of Leeds and then undertook historical research at the University of Kent, for which he was awarded a Ph D.

From 1978 he lectured in the history of early modern Europe at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and he eventually served there as Pro-Warden between 2004 and 2012.

In 2012 he was appointed as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts London, the largest university in the UK for art, design, fashion and other related subjects. There he had responsibility for all the academic activities of the University.

Philip became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers in 2015 and was admitted to the Livery in December 2015.

Since 2016 he has served as the Honorary Archivist of the Company and as a member of the Heritage Committee. On the basis of his experience in higher education he was recruited to the Charity and Education Committee, in 2021 becoming the Chairman of the Committee. At that time he also became a member of the Court.

Philip retired from his role at UAL in 2016 and in 2020 he and his wife, Janet, went to live in Great Malvern in Worcestershire.

Alice Pearson

A heritage professional specialising in commercial development, Alice is delighted to be the 38th Clerk, since the Reformation, of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, the fifth oldest Guild in the City of London.

With over 15 plus years successful Events Management in unique buildings and heritage estates, she previously spent seven years as Director of the Household Cavalry Museum in Whitehall. Prior to that she worked at both Inner Temple, Middle Temple, and Temple Church as well as the Museum of London Docklands and the Japanese Embassy in London.