Meet Our Current Master
Denis Clough is the 505th Master of The Clothworkers' Company.
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Denis Clough
The 505th Master of The Clothworkers’ Company (2024-5)
Elected to the Court in 2014, Denis was for several years the Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee, and sat on the Superintendence Committee, Property Committee and others. He has also served as a Trustee for The Clothworkers’ Foundation.
Brought up in Yorkshire, he is the son of Peter Clough (Freedom). His family have had a long, historic involvement in the textile industry through a family business that became part of British Mohair Spinners. However, until his great grandfather, they were not involved with The Clothworkers’ Company.
Denis read Economics at Cambridge and has spent most of his career working as an investment fund manager, specialising in the Japanese market. He joined Schroder Investment Management after university and worked there for more than 20 years, spending a few years based in Tokyo. A deep interest in wine led to a break from investment management to work for a boutique wine merchant, selling Bordeaux and Burgundy to private clients. He returned to the investment management sector in 2010 and is currently a Director at Morant Wright Management Ltd, which is a small London-based firm specialising in Japanese equity investment.
Denis is enthusiastic about most sport – especially cricket, football, golf and tennis. Following Yorkshire cricket and Leeds United are his main priorities. At school and university, golf was his main activity, but more recently an addiction to tennis has taken over. When not on the tennis court, he is normally reading detective fiction.
Denis is a trustee of his local church restoration fund, helps to run the local tennis club and is also a trustee of a charitable foundation. He lives in Braughing, in Hertfordshire, with his wife and an assortment of dogs and horses. He and Victoria have three grown-up children (two based in London, and a third overseas).
