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DAWSON, Paul R (fl 1985-1992)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4690

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DAWSON, Paul R (fl 1985-1992)

Date(s): 1985-1992

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Dawson | Paul | R | fl 1985-1992 | pensions administrator

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Paul R. Dawson worked within the Pension Technical Information Service at Noble Lowndes and Partners Limited during the late 1980s and early 1990s providing information to staff, consultants, technicians and administrators on subjects including the 1989/1990 Social Security Bill, 1989 Finance Act, equalisation of pension ages and National Association of Pension Funds' annual surveys.

Noble Lowndes set up his own brokerage firm in 1934, which would later became Noble Lowndes and Partners, initially specialising in Estate Duty. Lowndes' first pension scheme was set up in April 1936 and was based on individual endowment contracts. In 1949 Noble Lowndes and Partners became a limited company.

Lowndes was particularly active in assessing suitable areas for international expansion and overseas development began in 1947 when the Irish Pensions Trust Limited was set up in Dublin. Noble Lowndes and Partners continued to expand, becoming an international business specialising in the design of company pension schemes, insurance broking, and life assurance with established subsidary companies in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as a network of branches throughout the United Kingdom. By 1960 Noble Lowndes had expanded into Europe, the Far East and the United States and had become one of the largest pension consultant firms in the world with a quarter of British companies having a pension scheme devised by Noble Lowndes.

Noble Lowndes retired in 1966 and the firm was later acquired in 1969 by the merchant bankers Hill Samuel.

Registered office address: Sackville House, 143-149 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 6BP.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Noble Lowndes and Partners Ltd including Paul R Dawson's records on Noble Lowndes and Company Limited. Pension Technical Information Service instruction bulletins (1989-1992). Copy article on Noble Frank Lowndes by Hugh Woolhouse from 'Dictionary of Business Biography'. 'Pension Fund Investment' volume edited by A G Shepherd and accompanying correspondence to Paul Dawson from Anthea Nugent.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as follows:
LMA/4690/01: Noble Lowndes and Partners Limited
LMA/4690/02: Contributor to pensions publications

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by a third party.

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 by the Pensions Archive Trust in 2013.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: Added February 2016.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Pension services | Financial service industries | Service industries
Pensions | Social security | Social services

Personal names

Corporate names
Noble Lowndes and Partners Ltd
Pension Technical Information Service

Places