W. H. TOMSETT AND COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-191
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: W. H. TOMSETT AND COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1862
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: One production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: W.H. Tomsett and Co | wine and spirit merchants Sinclair, Birch and Co | wine and spirit merchants

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

WH Tomsett and Company succeeded Pound and Tomsett, listed in the London trade directories at 42 Trinity Square and 331 Edgeware Road (1872-6), and 12-14 Coopers' Row, Crutched Friars (1877-1879). WH Tomsett and Company are listed at 3 Savage Gardens, Crutched Friars (1880-1911) and 25 Savage Gardens (1912-1927).

Sinclair, Birch and Company are listed in the London trade directories at 8 Catherine Court (1900-1904), 26 Crutched Friars (1905-11), 27 Crutched Friars (1912-1913), 7 and 8 Idol Lane (1914-36), 33 St Mary at Hill (1937-71) and 8 St Mary at Hill (1972-3). Despite references in the directories of the 1930s onwards that Sinclair Birch was founded in 1871 there are no separate entries from WH Tomsett and Company before 1900.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy deeds of the sale, in 1903, of the wine and spirit merchant businesses of WH Tomsett and Company and Sinclair, Birch and Company, which were both owned by William Henry Tomsett (died 1903).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One bundle.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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:
January to May 2011.