IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1294
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PHILLIPS FAMILY
Date(s): 1792-1929
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.22 linear metres (156 documents).
Name of creator(s): Phillips | family | of Bedfont and Tottenham
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Daniel Phillips lived at East Bedfont for many years before his death in 1892. Kelly's Directory of Middlesex lists him as a resident in 1855. He bequeathed his residuary estate to his trustees, one of whom was his niece Mary Elizabeth Phillips. Miss Phillips was a member of a Quaker family who acquired property in Tottenham in the early nineteenth century. With her sister, Mrs. Alexander Fox, Miss Phillips founded in 1867 the North-Eastern Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, later known as The Queen's Hospital for Children. After a long illness Miss Phillips died on 20 January 1922. Her will contained many bequests to charities, and her real estate became the property of her nephew, John Phillips Fox.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to the estate of Daniel Phillips of Bedfont, 1892-1929, including title deeds, solicitors' bills, trustees papers and bank books; and to the estate of his niece, Mary Elizabeth Phillips of Tottenham, {1792}-1925, including title deeds, letters, inland revenue forms, annual accounts, bank books and household accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/1294-1: Daniel Phillips of Bedfont; ACC/1294-2: Mary Elizabeth Phillips of Tottenham.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
The deposit was received in two metal deed boxes from a firm of solicitors. Bundles of paid cheques, cheque stubs and tops of dividend warrants for the years 1910-1917, 1921-1923, which were stored with Miss Phillips's papers, have been destroyed. The back books, which cover most of these years, have been kept.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in October 1975.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.