CENTENARY CLUB

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/040
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: CENTENARY CLUB
Date(s)	: 1695-1872
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Centenary Club | dining society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Founded as the Friendly Society or Club but known as the Centenary Club from 1795, it was a dining club which met successively at the Castle, Paternoster Row, the Half Moon, Cheapside and the London coffee house, Ludgate hill. Many of the club's members held civic office in the City of London.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Registers of members of the Centenary Club dining society, 1695-1872.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Registers arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the 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:

These volumes were donated to Guildhall Library in 1898. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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:
June to August 2010.