Ivor Spencer is acknowledged to be Britain's leading and highest paid and most travelled professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies. The Rt. Worshipful The Lord Mayor of The City of Westminster has said he is the doyen of professional Toastmasters.
He is Life President and Founder of The Guild of International Professional Toastmasters, one of H.M. Deputy Lieutenants for and in the county of Greater London, and is the first Toastmaster to have achieved the honour of officiating at well over 1,000 Royal events, and this was mentioned in the House of Commons on the 3rd February 1992.
He is an author, after-dinner speaker, lecturer and broadcaster in television and radio, and runs the famous Ivor Spencer International School for Butler Administrator/Personal Assistants in the U.K. and U.S.A. and the Ivor Spencer School for professional Toastmasters.
He has been a professional Toastmaster for 40 years, and is often called upon to organise very special events. His client list reads like the Times Top Thousand Companies, many are international names including Harrods and Marks & Spencer, and including many leading newspapers. "I, Ivor Spencer, am very proud to have created "The Best After-Dinner Speaker of the Year" Award in 1967. The Award now known as, "The Ivor Spencer Best After-Dinner Speaker of the Year" Award will continue sponsored by The Guild of International Professional Toastmasters of which I am the Founder and Life President. Recipients of the Award have been former Prime Minister of Great Britain Baroness Thatcher, Bob Monkhouse, Lord Tonypandy, Jimmy Tarbuck, Sir Peter Ustinov and many other eminent speakers."
The Ivor Spencer School for Butlers has been established 20 years, and the Ivor Spencer School for Professional Toastmasters for 30 years.
CITATION: The Executive Officers and Fellows of the Guild of International Professional Toastmasters award to Ivor Spencer, The Guild of International Professional Toastmasters Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, the first Toastmaster to receive this Award for services to the Toastmaster profession, for being the first and only Toastmaster to have officiated at well over 1,000 Royal events, and in recognition of Ivor Spencer's relentless efforts and superb contribution to the Toastmaster profession for over forty years.
TOASTMASTER OF THE YEAR 2000: This award was presented to Ivor Spencer by the Guild of International Professional Toastmasters.
The above two awards were presented by the former Prime Minister of Great Britain The Right Honourable Baroness Thatcher.
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