MAYCOCK, Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin (1849-1922)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 F/MCK
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: MAYCOCK, Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin (1849-1922)
Date(s)	: 1879-1913
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres (112 documents).
Name of creator(s)	: Maycock | Sir | Willoughby Robert Dottin | 1849-1922 | Knight | civil servant

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin Maycock was born in July 1849, the son of Colonel Dottin Maycock of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. He served with the Exchequer and the Audit Department before gaining a clerkship at the Foreign Office in 1872. He was attached to Chamberlain's mission to Washington in 1887 and received a Royal Commission as Acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in the same year. He became an Assistant in the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office in 1897 and was Superintendent 1903-1913. He retired in 1913 and died in November 1922. He published "With Mr Chamberlain in the United States and Canada, 1887-1888".

Information from 'MAYCOCK, Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin', Who Was Who, A and C Black, 1920-2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir Willoughby Maycock relating to his career at the Foreign Office, including letters and cuttings.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

F/MCK/001 to F/MCK/112.

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:

Gifted to the Archive in January 1963.

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:
Records prepared May to September 2011.