Hedgehog has just returned from the Gulls’ Eggs City Luncheon, where the wisest and most respected figures within the Square Mile came to peel back the mottled green shells in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Hedgehog has just returned from the Gulls’ Eggs City Luncheon, where the wisest and most respected figures within the Square Mile came to peel back the mottled green shells in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
The Luncheon has acquired a glamorous new chairman, in the guise of Zoë Couper of Couper and Partners, who was constantly on the move, ensuring the five hundred guests – from the oldest financial houses and the top law firms – met who they had to meet and ate plenty of the gulls’ eggs, which are only available for a month each year.
As one eminent financier said to me, ‘It’s the true heart of the City – none of those ridiculous derivatives traders. This is the my-word-is-my-bond crowd.’ They certainly took the theme to heart, many wearing ties with gull-patterns, and Turnbull & Asser were selling ties specially created for the lunch.
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The Luncheon’s committee is not short of its own eminence – Fred Carr, Rupert Phelps, Richard Nunneley – and patrons include Angela Knight, stalwart defender of the banking industry, Rupert Hambro, Crispin Odey and Field Marshal The Lord Bramall.
The sun stayed out over the City, meaning guests could use the Merchant Taylors’ Hall’s courtyard to mix and smoke indecently-sized cigars, whose fragrance rose over the chatter about what’s going to happen to the FSA and (courtesy of Wealth Bulletin’s Tara Loader-Wilkinson) who was the best-dressed financier.
According to Zoë Couper, the Luncheon had already beaten its fund-raising target even before the raffle tickets went on sale.
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