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Wednesday 24 September 2014 8:39 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 07 June 2019 7:33 am

Sir Tim Berners-Lee awarded Honorary Freedom of the City

By: Gabriella Griffith

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Given that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave us the world wide web and with it, freedom to find information, it’s fitting he received the Freedom of Canada yesterday. But not just any old Freedom, an Honorary Freedom of the City – a title saved for heads of state and people of great standing in the world.

Here he is with Peter Kane, Chamberlain of London, in the Old Library at Guildhall taking his certificate. It’s about time, we say.

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