IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/086
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON AND PROVINCIAL LAW ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Date(s): 1877-1884
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 production units.
Name of creator(s): London and Provincial Law Assurance Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Society was based at 32 New North Road, Blackfriars (1846-55) and 21 Fleet Street (1856-84). In 1884 it was acquired by Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company, later Guardian Assurance Company Ltd.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the London and Provincial Law Assurance Society comprise correspondence and financial accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been arranged in order reflecting the record function, e.g. administration, financial and so on.
Conditions governing access:
Not available for online ordering. Please see staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
The whereabouts of other records is not known.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were presented to Guildhall Library in 1991 when they were catalogued by a member of staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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: June to August 2010.