COLLYER BRISTOW {SOLICITORS}
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 ACC/3191 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : COLLYER BRISTOW {SOLICITORS} |
Date(s) | : 1840-1930 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 0.16 linear metres |
Name of creator(s) | : Collyer Bristow and Company | solicitors |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The firm of Collyer Bristow and Company, solicitors of 4 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4DF, has been in existence, albeit under different names, since the late 18th Century. The earliest document in this collection dates from 1781, when the partners were Dyneley, Bell and Dyneley.
In the mid-19th Century a member of the Collyer Bristow family joined the company, at which time it was known as Coverdale, Lee and Collyer Bristow. Between 1876 and 1922 a succession of partners passed through the firm, it became first Collyer Bristow, Withers and Russell, then Collyer Bristow, Hill, Curtis and Dodds and Collyer Bristow, Curtis, Booth , Birks and Langley, before setting on Collyer Bristow and Company in 1922.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1840-1930, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds for property in Erith, Islington and Hackney belonging to James Elton of Erith, surveyor and architect, mortgaged to Thomas Curtis, partner in Collyer-Bristow, solicitors.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
One bundle
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
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 1993 (ACC/3191).
Allied Materials
Related material:
See also B/COL, ACC/2609, ACC/3134 and ACC/3188
Publication note:
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:
July to October 2009
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