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He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, 1976-77.\n\nRobert Goodden brought in as gifts on the 13th July, 1976, one working drawing, details and studies for the service including a detailed drawing for the sugar tongs and the couplets drawn out for the engraver.  The couplets were written by Robert Goodden himself; at one point he intended elaborating them into a series of full scale poems but these were never realised.\n\nLeslie Durbin (1913-2005), silversmith, was a pupil at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and whilst there held all the scholarships granted by the Goldsmiths' Company, including the Travelling Scholarship.  Subsequently he carried on his workshop at Rochester Place, Camden Town, relinquishing it only late in 1975.  He made the Stalingrad Sword in 1944 and much plate for City Livery Companies, universities and other official bodies.  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