IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 E/SL
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: STUART LANE, Richard
Date(s): 1783-1920
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.3 linear metres (287 documents).
Name of creator(s): Lane | family | of Westminster
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Richard Stuart Lane was a Baltic shipping agent and London-Baltic merchant of Lane, Hankey and Company, based at 251 Old Broad Street and 8 Chesham Place, SW.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records relating to property owned by the Lane family in Grosvenor Square and Eaton Square, Westminster; Caterham; Croydon and Hove; and papers relating to a suit in Chancery.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
E/SL-1: Wills and correspondence concerning property and investments;
E/SL-2: Property transactions and related correspondence;
E/SL-3: (items no longer held at LMA);
E/SL-4: Legal papers.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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:
Deposited in June 1954.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also CLC/472: Lane, Stuart Richard, for letter books 1858-68, note book on foreign clients 1856, private diaries 1875-82 and correspondence and accounts 1847-87.
Some items from this collection relating to the Newton Plantation estate, Barbados, were transferred to the University of London Library, 29 March 1967.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011, with additions August 2012.