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London Metropolitan Archives

FLOWER FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2937

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: FLOWER FAMILY

Date(s): 1719-1908

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.51 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Flower | Cyril | 1843-1907 | Lord Battersea | Member of Parliament x Battersea | Lord

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Philip William Flower lived at Furzedown, Surrey. He was married to May, daughter of Jonathan Flower. Their son Cyril Flower was born in 1848. He became a Liberal MP and from 1892 a Liberal peer as Lord Battersea. He was married to Constance de Rothschild, but died childless in 1907.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Legal and property records of the Flower family. The records are in the form of bound volumes containing the initial deed followed by schedules which include lists of Philip Flower's property, personal and real, lists of mortgages and copies of accounts kept by trustees. The property records relate to 17 and 18 Dover Street, Piccadilly (knocked together to form one property in 1876) and the legal records comprise deeds of release and indemnity for Cyril Flower.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/2937/001 to 024: 17 and 18 Dover Street; ACC/2937/025 to 032: Deeds of release and indemnity.

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:

Records deposited in June 1991.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names
Flower | Cyril | 1843-1907 | Lord Battersea | Member of Parliament x Battersea | Lord

Corporate names

Places
Piccadilly | Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of Westminster