COLONIAL AND FOREIGN BANKS GUARANTEE FUND

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/192-12
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 View parent record
Extent	: 5 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, which merged with the Sun Insurance Office to form Sun Alliance. 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:

Records of the Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund, including Council and committee minutes, 1919-1955; attendance book, 1903-1963; ledgers, 1878-1946; and register of claims, 1868-1930.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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 alongside the records of Sun Alliance.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also CLC/133: Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund; and CLC/B/192-02 for the Alliance Assurance Company.

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:
January to May 2011.