IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GBR 1991 RMBI
Held at: Museum of Freemasonry
Title: Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution archive collection
Date(s): 1842 - 2003
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 119 volumes
Name of creator(s): Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Royal Masonic Benevolent Annuity Fund was set up in 1842 to provide financial support for elderly freemasons. In 1849 a female annuity fund was set up to provide financial support for the widows, spinster daughters and sisters of freemasons. In 1850 a home for the care of annuitants was opened in East Croydon under the control of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution, which was created at the same time through the merger of the two annuity funds. The home was moved to Hove in Sussex in 1955 and seventeen further homes were opened at locations around the country between 1966 and 1998.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Consists of records created by the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (formerly the Royal Masonic Benevolent Annuity Fund). This includes minutes, agendas, signature books, financial records, registers, diaries from the wardens of the first home, publicity (including films), minutes from meetings of the Friends of the RMBI and photograph and ephemera albums. Also contains registers from RMBI Nominees Ltd. and RMBI services Ltd.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged into 3 sub-fonds according to the body that created the records: the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution, RMBI Nominees Ltd. and RMBI Services Ltd.
Conditions governing access:
No access to be given without the prior permission of the Director of the Museum of Freemasonry.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No reproductions to be made without the prior permission of the Director of the Museum of Freemasonry and in conjunction with the Photocopying Policy observed by the Museum of Freemasonry.
Finding aids:
Item level descriptions available on our catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
This collection was acquired along with the Masonic Foundation for the Aged and the Sick archive collection and the Masonic Trust of East Africa archive collection.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 19/07/2006