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WILLIAM MACKINNON AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-57

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WILLIAM MACKINNON AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1885

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units.

Name of creator(s): William MacKinnon and Co | East India merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company, East India merchants of Glasgow, was part of the Inchcape Group of companies. For further information about this company, see the introductory note for Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Company (CLC/B/123-41).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

William MacKinnon and Company records comprise: partnership deeds, 1919-25 (Ms 27849); and copy minute of an agreement, 1885 (Ms 27850).

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 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:

These archives were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987-88. They were catalogued in 1988-9. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

This collection is a sub-fond within the Inchcape Group fonds. See CLC/B/123 for a list of all the companies represented in this collection and a history of the Inchcape Group.

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
International trade | Trade
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
William MacKinnon and Co | East India merchants

Places
Glasgow | Lanarkshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
India | South Asia