This is a list of organisations with a British royal charter. It includes organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.
The list of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter is an alphabetical list of organisations in the UK.
Table
Kingdom of England
13th and 14th century
see table above.
15th century
16th century
1500-1549
1550-1599
- 13 May 1550 Sherborne School
- 1550 French Protestant Church of London
- 14 May 1552 Sedbergh School
- 17 June 1552 King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge
- 12 July 1552 King Edward's School, Bath
- 18 December 1552 Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
- 1552 Bedford School
- 1552 King Edward's School, Birmingham
- 1552 The King's School, Macclesfield
- 26 May 1553 Giggleswick School
- 26 June 1553 Bridewell Hospital
- 26 June 1553 Christ's Hospital
- 1553 King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton
- 1553 Tonbridge School
- 6 January 1555 Boston Grammar School, Lincolnshire
- 1554 Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
- 1554 Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
- 15 July 1555 College of Arms
- 1555 St. John's College, Oxford
- 7 July 1556 Charity of the Priest and Poor of Ginge Petre in the County of Essex
- 4 May 1557 Stationers' Company
- 5 July 1558 Brentwood School
- 21 May 1560 Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster
- 28 February 1561 Royal Grammar School Worcester
- 1561 Kingston Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames
- 25 October 1561 Broderers' Company
- 1562 St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School
- 1562 King's Ely
- 15 June 1563 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington
- 1565 Exeter College, Oxford
- 1565 Highgate School
- 1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
- 3 August 1568 Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company
- 12 October 1568 Girdlers' Company
- 14 April 1570 Joiners' Company
- 1571 Blacksmiths' Company
- 1571 Harrow School
- 27 June 1571 Jesus College, Oxford
- 9 February 1573 University College, Oxford
- 1574 Cranbrook School, Kent
- 1576 Sutton Valence School
- 19 June 1578 Haberdashers' Company
- 19 July 1581 Painter-Stainers' Company
- 1584 Colchester Royal Grammar School
- 1584 Uppingham School
- 1585 Queen's College, Oxford
- 1591 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
- 1592 Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol
- 1594 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- 3 May 1597 Hospital of St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne in Oakham
17th century
1600s
1610s
1620s
1630s
1660s
1670s
1680s
1690s
18th century
1700s
Kingdom of Scotland
16th century
Kingdom of Great Britain
18th century
1700s
1710s
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
19th century
1800s
United Kingdom
19th century
1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
20th century
1900s
1910s
1920s
- 11 March 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
- 25 March 1920 Medical Research Council
- 25 March 1920 Forestry Commissioners
- 17 May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
- 17 May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics
- 28 June 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- 13 October 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
- 10 June 1921 Officers' Association
- 14 July 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
- 10 August 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
- 11 October 1921 Empire Forestry Association
- 11 October 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation
- 7 November 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen
- 13 December 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
- 6 February 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- 3 March 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
- 3 March 1922 Over-Seas League
- 1 April 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)
- 5 May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
- 20 June 1922 St. John's Foundation School
- 10 August 1922 College of Estate Management
- 6 December 1922 Toc H (Incorporated)
- 6 December 1922 Girl Guides Association
- 29 January 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
- 12 March 1923 British Institute of Florence
- 4 May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
- 4 May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
- 26 June 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
- 11 October 1923 Dover College
- 21 March 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- 25 June 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
- 25 July 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
- 6 February 1925 The Textile Institute
- 17 March 1925 British Legion
- 12 October 1925 London Playing Fields Society
- 12 October 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- 16 December 1925 Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
- 1 February 1926 University of Reading
- 25 February 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- 25 February 1926 St. Hilda's College, Oxford
- 25 February 1926 Birkbeck College
- 25 February 1926 Royal Medico Psychological Association
- 30 April 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
- 1 June 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
- 1 June 1926 The Mothers' Union
- 28 June 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
- 28 June 1926 St. Hugh's College, Oxford
- 5 November 1926 Institute of Transport
- 20 November 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
- 14 December 1926 National Police Fund
- 22 March 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 22 March 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
- 13 July 1928 Royal College of Nursing
- 14 August 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
- 20 November 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital (now the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine)
- 20 November 1928 National Art Collection Fund
- 21 December 1928 Malvern College
- 29 January 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
- 1 March 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
- 21 March 1929 British Engineering Standards Association
- 10 May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
- 10 May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
- 5 July 1929 Institute of Hygiene
- 17 December 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- 8 April 1960 National Army Museum
- 3 August 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
- 26 October 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
- 2 August 1961 University of Sussex
- 24 October 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
- 24 October 1961 St. Peter's College, Oxford
- 6 December 1961 University of Keele
- 21 December 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
- 26 February 1962 University of the West Indies
- 2 October 1962 Magistrates' Association
- 28 November 1962 Library Association of Australia
- 26 March 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
- 2 May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
- 30 May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
- 29 July 1963 University of York
- 29 July 1963 St. Catherine's College, Oxford
- 29 July 1963 Animal Health Trust
- 27 November 1963 University of East Anglia
- 27 November 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland
- 26 March 1964 Institution of Production Engineers
- 23 June 1964 University of Strathclyde
- 23 June 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
- 27 July 1964 University of Lancaster
- 20 November 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury
- 20 November 1964 University of Essex
- 29 January 1965 University of Warwick
- 26 February 1965 Science Research Council
- 26 February 1965 British Psychological Society
- 4 May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
- 3 August 1965 London Mathematical Society
- 29 October 1965 Social Science Research Council
- 31 January 1966 Heriot-Watt University
- 24 February 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
- 10 March 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
- 6 April 1966 City University, London
- 9 June 1966 Brunel University
- 28 July 1966 University of Surrey
- 28 July 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
- 20 September 1966 University of Bradford
- 20 September 1966 Bath University of Technology
- 10 February 1967 University of Salford
- 28 June 1967 University of Dundee
- 28 July 1967 Royal College of Art
- 23 August 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
- 10 October 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
- 13 November 1967 University of Stirling
- 13 November 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
- 22 March 1968 Royal African Society
- 1969 Royal Hong Kong Police, reverted to Hong Kong Police after Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
- 23 April 1969 Open University
- 25 June 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
- -July 1969 Australian Institute of Building
- 28 November 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- 28 November 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology
- 19 December 1969 Royal College of Pathologists
1970s
1980s
1990s
21st century
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
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