JACOBS FAMILY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: CLA/061
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: JACOBS FAMILY
Date(s)	: 1841-1966
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Jacobs | Harry Ronald | 1912-1966 | Major | Common Councilman Jacobs | Hyman | 1888-1945 | Common Councilman Telford | Charles | ? 1876 | Stock broker

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Major Harry Ronald Jacobs (1912-1966): Born on 3 January 1912 at 75 Ickburgh Road, Upper Clapton, Middlesex, son of Hyman [Hymie] Jacobs, furniture dealer and Common Councilman for the City Ward of Portsoken 1930-1945. Jacobs became a solicitor's articled clerk in July 1933, and later a solicitor. He served nearly 6 years in the Army during the Second World War, rising from the ranks to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and retiring with the honorary rank of Major. He was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London by redemption (purchase) in July 1933. He is recorded in the Solicitors' Company by Order of the Court of Aldermen, 11 March 1947. He was a Liveryman of the Solicitor's Company by 1947, and a member of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London. He was Common Councilman for the City Ward of Portsoken 1946-1966. He died 28 October 1966.

Hyman Jacobs (1888-1945): Born 7 February 1888 at 7 White Street, Houndsditch, London EC, son of Isaac Jacobs. Jacobs was a furniture dealer (at least in 1933) with a business at 2 Houndsditch (at least 1930-1934). He was Common Councilman for the Ward of Portsoken 1946-1966. He died late in 1945 (death reported to Common Council 13 December 1945).

Charles Telford (1820 or earlier - 1876): Son of George Telford, of Widmore, near Bromley, Kent, gentleman (dead by May 1841). Telford was a stock-broker, admitted to the Freedom of the City of London [in order to qualify as a City of London Sworn Broker] by redemption [i.e. purchase] in May 1841. He was sworn as a City of London Sworn Broker 24 June 1841, his sureties being Henry John Telford of Billiter Street, City of London, merchant, and Charles Williams Allen, of the Moor near Kington, Herefordshire, gentleman. Continued as a City of London Sworn Broker until his death on 26 July 1876.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Major Harry Ronald Jacobs and his father Hyman Jacobs acquired during their service as Common Councilmen, including programmes and menus from Corporation and linked functions, 1938-1966; programmes and menus from non-Corporation functions including London County Council 1960, Freemasons 1948-1965, Bassishaw Ward 1962, Portsoken Ward 1946-1963, Livery Companies: Haberdashers' Company 1960-1961, Paviors' Company 1947-1966, Skinners' Company no date [c. 1950s?], Solicitors' Company 1960, Wheelwrights' Company 1964, City Pickwick Club 1962-1966, City University 1966, United Synagogue Orders of Service 1960; official Corporation publications and guides; art, library and museum catalogues 1950-1965; brochures from the Festival of the City of London 1962-1966; and publication The Corporation of the City of London and the First Twelve of the Great City Guilds in the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Also Broker's Medal of Charles Telford, 1841.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In sections according to catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Corporation of London Records Office.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For more programmes and material relating to events see the papers of the Remembrancer's department (COL/RMD/CE).

Publication note:

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:
February 2009