He studied for the Fellowship in Optometry of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (FSMC) at night school, qualifying in 1931.

He was a director of the Alliance Assurance Company and an alderman of the City of London in the Spectacle Makers' Company.

Several companies that do not have their own hall share office premises within a hall of another company on a semi-permanent basis, and examples are the Spectacle Makers' Company, which uses part of Apothecaries' Hall, and the Shipwrights, which co-habit with the Ironmongers.

SAM Technology has also won an award from the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers who gave it their Award for Innovation in British Optics 2001.

The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, UK.

The Spectacle Makers' Company ranks sixtieth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies.

In January 1888 Stephens was admitted to the Freedom and Livery of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.

Fifth Champness Lecturer, Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (1975)

He became a Freeman of the City of London in 1778 and was a Liveryman of the Spectacle Makers' Company.

A member of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, he was elected at the 1835 general election as one of the four Members of Parliament (MPs) for the City of London, and re-elected in 1837, but defeated at the 1841 general election.