IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/425
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BLADES, Sir George Rowland (1868-1953)
Date(s): 1916-1945
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 19 volumes.
Name of creator(s): Blades | Sir | George Rowland | 1868-1953 | baronet | politician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir George Rowland Blades was born in 1868. He was chairman of Blades, East and Blades, stationers and printers of 17 Abchurch Lane; and also served as alderman for Bassishaw ward; Member of Parliament for Epsom, 1918-1928; secretary, later president, of the Lords and Commons cricket team; Sheriff of London, 1917-1918; and Lord Mayor, 1926-1927. He was created 1st Lord Ebbisham in 1927 and died in 1953.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Sir George Rowland Blades.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Volumes in chronological order.
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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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: Records prepared May to September 2011.