GIBBONS, Michael (fl 1725-1753) {INNKEEPER}, HOLBORN

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/GIB
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GIBBONS, Michael (fl 1725-1753) {INNKEEPER}, HOLBORN
Date(s)	: 1725-1753
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.3 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Gibbons | Michael | fl 1725-1753 | innkeeper

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Michael Gibbons was innkeeper and livery stable keeper at the Red Lion Inn in the parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn. According to the Scavengers Rate Books of Saint Andrew and Saint George the Martyr, 1729-1757, kept at the Holborn Reference Library, his inn lay on the east side of Gray's Inn Lane, the ninth property from Liquorpond Street and the third from Portpool Lane. This is confirmed by the marking of Red Lion Yard on Horwood's map of 1819. The site appears to be approximately that of the present 88-90 Gray's Inn Road, Liquorpond Street having been widened and renamed Clerkenwell Road. The rate books also show that the property was assessed at £100 to £150 over the period, whereas neighbouring houses ranged from £10 to £42 in 1729. In the 1753 rate, Gibbon's name is crossed through, and that of Nicholas Hewitt written in; Hewitt continued there until at least 1757. Gibbon's daughter Mary married William Bass (1717-1787), a carrier between London and Lancashire, who settled in Burton-on-Trent and in 1777 founded the brewery business which bears his name.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Michael Gibbon, innkeeper of Holborn, comprising three account books showing that as well as managing the inn and busy livery stable - sending horses to grass on 'the Marshes' - Gibbons undertook varied purchases and commissions for his customers, many of whom were from Gray's Inn across the road, and also from other Inns of Court. One of his customers Denzil Suckling, a member of the Middle Temple, appears to have acted as trustee for a young girl, Sophia Bright; Gibbons' accounts include payment for her schooling, clothing and medical care.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Three volumes

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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 1968.

Allied Materials

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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:
July to October 2009