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JACOBS, Richard (fl 1813-1847)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP19

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: JACOBS, Richard (fl 1813-1847)

Date(s): [1813-1847]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Jacobs | Richard | fl 1813-1847

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Jacobs appears to have paid the debts of various inmates of debtors' prisons.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bundle of receipts, [1813-1847], for what appear to be payments out of the estate of Richard Jacobs to the debtors of various gaols, including the Fleet Prison, Marshalsea and Horne Monger Lane Gaol, London. A number relate to school fees or other educational requirements, possibly for the children of the poor.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Thought to have been among the papers of a member of King's College Hospital staff who served as an executor to Jacob's estate.

Immediate source of acquisition:

King's College Hospital Library.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Annabel Dodds as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Debts | Financial resources | Finance
Educational fees | Educational finance | Economics of education
Prisons | Penal sanctions | Administration of justice
Penal institutions

Personal names
Jacobs | Richard | fl 1813-1847

Corporate names
Fleet Prison
Horne Monger Lane Gaol
Marshalsea Prison

Places