COLONIAL AND FOREIGN BANKS GUARANTEE FUND

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/133
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: COLONIAL AND FOREIGN BANKS GUARANTEE FUND
Date(s)	: 1867-1963
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 13 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The fund was established in 1866 under the control of the trustees who were incorporated in 1899 and took over the business of the fund as the Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Corporation. The business of the Corporation was transferred to the Alliance Assurance Company in 1920. The fund was based at 86 King William Street (1866-1900), 94 Gracechurch Street (1900-8) and 16 St Helen's Place (1908-20).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the trustees of the Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Minute books in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions. Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records 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:

The records were deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Sun Alliance in 1969, 1978 and 1994. The records were catalogued by Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Further records are catalogued with the records of the Royal and Sun Alliane Insurance Group (see CLC/B/192-12).

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:
June to August 2010.