IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/085
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: FOSTER AND BRAITHWAITE
Date(s): 1832-1955
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 225 production units.
Name of creator(s): Foster and Braithwaite | stockbrokers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This firm of stockbrokers was founded in 1825 by James Foster and Richard Janson as Foster and Janson. Janson died in 1830 and James Foster was joined by Isaac Braithwaite and the firm was renamed Foster and Braithwaite in 1833. James Foster retired in 1855 and died in 1861. Isaac Braithwaite became head of the firm and in 1867 a new deed of partnership established the family dominance of the firm for the next century: only in 1968 was a partner nominated from outside the Braithwaite family. A new deed of partnership was drawn up in 1971. The firm was based at 27 Austin Friars from 1863-1970; from 1971-75 it was based at 1 Throgmorton Avenue and from 1976-88 at 22 Austin Friars; from 1989 its offices were at 27 Finsbury Square.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Foster and Braithwaite, stockbrokers, which comprise ledgers, journals and subscription books.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1971 and 1975, and converted to a gift in December 2006.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
There is a history of the firm by W. J. Reader entitled A House in the City (London 1979), a copy of which is held by the Printed Books Section of the Guildhall Library.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.