IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/487
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PARK, David Francis (fl 1857-1885)
Date(s): 1857-1885
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): Park | David Francis | fl 1857-1885 | banker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
David Francis Park worked at the Credit Foncier de Mauritius, Limited, of 17 Change Alley, Cornhill. A credit foncier company provides mortgage finance and loans. The name derives from the Credit Foncier de France which was established in 1852.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of banker David Francis Park including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes and other material relating to banks and banking.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given to the Manuscripts Section in 1961 via the Business Archives Council, and catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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.