Kidson, who was previously a Freeman of the Company and of the City of London, was cloathed at the traditional cloathing ceremony at Stationers' Hall on 6 December.

Formerly managing director of J W Braithwaite and Son, Kidson founded Ludlow Bookbinders with master bookbinder Brian Settle in 2006.

The Stationers' Company is the City of London Livery Company for the communications and content industries.

It was founded in 1403 when manuscript writers and illuminators formed a guild, taking the name ‘Stationers’ from the fact that they had stopped being itinerant vendors and had set up fixed stalls in St Paul’s Churchyard.

Today the Stationers’ Company has over 800 members, the vast majority of whom are senior executives in the visual and graphic communications industries, including print, paper, office products, publishing, packaging, newspapers, broadcasting and online media.

Membership is drawn from across the UK and increasingly throughout the world and now includes major companies as well as individual members.