THOMAS MARTYN FOUNDATION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4523
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: THOMAS MARTYN FOUNDATION
Date(s)	: 1716-2008
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.23 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Thomas Martyn Foundation | charity supporting the children of watermen

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Martyn was a wealthy gentleman who lived in Putney in the late 17th century. In his will, made shortly before his death in 1684, he granted his estate to his niece Lucy Cook, with the proviso that if she died without children the proceeds of the estate should be used to endow a school for the sons of watermen. Although Lucy married, she died childless in 1701 and the trustees of the will established a Watermen's School in 1718. Scholars were provided with a uniform and tuition in reading, writing and arithmetic. From 1817 the trustees also provided a sum of money towards the apprenticeship of school leavers, to watermen and other trades. The Watermen's School continued in Putney until its closure in 1911, but the charity, now known as the Thomas Martyn Foundation, still exists as an educational trust making financial grants to the sons and daughters of licensed watermen.

For more details see LMA/4523/06/01/002.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Thomas Martyn Foundation, including minutes of the trustees 1716-1972; correspondence 1887-1939, 1955-1977; accounts 1863-1893, 1904-1947; copy will of Thomas Martyn; reports on the school 1883-1909; apprenticeship register and indentures, 1878-1932; pupils' birth certificates; exhibition items; printed material and photographs.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in the following sections:
TRUSTEES LMA/4523/01;
SECRETARY LMA/4532/02;
FINANCE LMA/4523/03;
APPRENTICESHIPS LMA/4523/04;
PROPERTY LMA/4523/05;
PRINTED MATERIAL AND PHOTOGRAPHS LMA/4523/06.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

The archive of the school and foundation was housed at Wandsworth Museum until the museum's closure at the end of 2007.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in January 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The records of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen are also held, CLC/L/WA. For more information go to www.history.ac.uk/gh/water.htm .

Painting of pupil from the Waterman's School by E. Hassell (1826) in the Minet Collection, Lambeth.

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.