Norris Oakley Bros, Stockbrokers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 NORRIS OAKLEY
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Norris Oakley Bros, Stockbrokers
Date(s)	: c1880s-1940
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 35 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Norris Oakley Bros

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

T H Oakley was a stockbroker of 2 Copthall Buildings, London, c 1885. The Company became known as Oakley Norris Bros (same address), c 1888-1966; then Norris Oakley Richardson and Glover. John Kenneth Ritchie, third Baron Ritchie of Dundee (1902-1975) and chairman of the London Stock Exchange, 1959-1965, was a senior partner of the company.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Ledgers of London stockbrokers Oakley Norris Bros, 1880s-1940.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted

Conditions governing access:

Closed

Conditions governing reproduction:

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Formerly held in a shed on a farm in Surrey and transferred to LSE Archives in 1981. Some of the material was held for a time by Guildhall Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by C E Smallwood via Guildhall Library in 1981.

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

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:
Apr 2008