Origins
The name. The mark. The standard.
A company formed through command and creation.
The Fire
At the centre is the fire.
The source of judgement, imagination and purpose. The common ground around which people gather.
The Brannock
Raven-born.
Watchful, intelligent and adaptable, the Brannock ranges beyond the familiar. It observes, connects and returns with what matters.
The raven gives the Brannock its ancestry.
Command & Creation
Command
Leadership, preparation, judgement, responsibility and decisive action.
Creation
Observation, intuition, imagination, invention and craft. The ability to bring into being what has yet to exist.
Provenance
1860 · Mars and Minerva
The Artists Rifles was formed in London in 1860 from the city's creative community, with Mars and Minerva on its badge. Its ranks brought together artists, architects, writers and makers with military service.
Before Brannock came experience across military service, government, complex programmes and fine art. The founder spent over a decade in the British Army, first as a commissioned officer and later serving with 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists), with deployments overseas and appointments at home. The years since have taken him into diplomacy, national programmes and field operations across four continents.
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The corps was raised among the painters and architects of London in 1859 and formally established in 1860. In the First World War it became a source of commissioned leadership for the whole Army. In 1947 the Special Air Service was re-formed within the regiment as 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists).
Painters
Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, George Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Paul Nash, John Nash
Poets and playwrights
Algernon Swinburne, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, R. C. Sherriff, Noël Coward
Designers and engineers
William Morris, Barnes Wallis
Sculptor and architect
Charles Sargeant Jagger. Robert Edis, who commanded the corps and designed its headquarters.
That breadth of perspective still matters. Brannock today draws on people whose experience reaches across very different fields.
& Co.
The company is the point.
Brannock brings together unusually capable people from varied worlds around consequential requirements. Different disciplines bring different ways of seeing. Brannock provides the architecture, relationship and standard.
The experience is individual. The standard is Brannock.
Brannock Now
Provenance gives authority.
Creativity gives range.
Judgement connects the two.
Brannock operates where people, interests and opportunities of consequence meet complexity. Across private, institutional, technological and cultural environments, we assemble the capability the requirement demands.