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CHANDLER, HARGREAVES, WHITTALL AND COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-032

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CHANDLER, HARGREAVES, WHITTALL AND COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1960-1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units comprising 2 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Co Ltd | insurance brokers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company of insurance brokers of London was acquired by Harrisons and Crosfield Securities Limited (CLC/B/112-075) in 1961. At the same time Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall (Underwriting Agencies) Limited was formed as underwriting agents at Lloyd's.

In 1975 the life assurance portfolio of Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Company was merged with Henderson Admin Limited, to form a jointly owned new company: Chandler, Henderson Financial Services Limited. In 1978 Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Company Limited acquired Lloyd's underwriting agency of Harris and Graham and it was restyled Chandler Graham Limited. In 1990 the Company was sold as part of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited's general trading division.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Company Limited, insurance brokers, comprising general correspondence and papers relating to the purchase of the company by Harrisons and Crosfield Limited.

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:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.

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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance | Finance
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries

Personal names

Corporate names
Chandler | Hargreaves | Whittall and Co Ltd | insurance brokers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe