IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0820
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GARROW FAMILY
Date(s): 1805-1890
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.07 linear metres (9 documents).
Name of creator(s): Garrow | family | of Monken Hadley
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
According to a report in The Times (Tuesday, Sep 29, 1840; pg. 5; Issue 17475; col A), Reverend David Garrow of Monken Hadley died in 1805 aged 90 (see ACC/0820/001a-d). His son Sir William Garrow was born in April 1760 and pursued a legal career, serving as Solicitor and Attorney General to George IV. He was also MP for Callington and Eye. In 1817 he was nominated to a barony in the Exchequer. He retired in 1831 and died in 1840. He had one son, Reverend Dr David Wiliam Garrow who died in 1827, and one daughter, Eliza, who married Dr Lettsem of Camberwell.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Garrow family including probate relating to property in Monken Hadley and Enfield; marriage settlement; papers relating to land in Hendon and lease for land in Finchley.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0820/001 to 009.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Gifted to the Archive in June 1963.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.