Trinity House is a charity dedicated to safeguarding shipping and seafarers, providing education, support and welfare to the seafaring community with a statutory duty as a General Lighthouse.

Commonly known as Trinity House, the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond were granted a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1514.

Initially tasked just to preserve the safety of shipping on the Thames and tend to the education and wellbeing of seafarers, these concerns took on a national scope before long, and have remained Trinity House's business ever since.