Eden Phillpotts was born in India and educated in Plymouth, Devon. He spent several years working as an insurance officer before becoming a prolific novelist, playwright and poet. He was president of the Dartmoor Preservation Association for many years and a large proportion of his works are set on Dartmoor. His daughter Adelaide (1896-1993) also became a writer and collaborated with her father on several works, including the play 'Yellow Sands'.
Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, was registered in 1965 on the merger of the Harrisons and Crosfield's branch business in Nairobi, Kenya (established in 1963) and the firm of P. Phillips and Company Limited. In 1974 an African registered company, Apex Distributors Limited, was formed and controlled by Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited with a minority shareholding. In 1987 Harrisons and Crosfield sold their 50% holding in Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield.
Phillips and Son, solicitors and commissioners of oaths, are listed in the 1865-1875 Post Office London law directories as James Phillips and Henry Druit Phillips, operating as Phillips and Son, with offices at 11 Abchurch Lane. They also acted as vestry clerks for City of London churches Saint Mary Woolnoth and Saint Mary Woolchurch Haw. It is unclear when 'Neal' joined the partnership.
The latter documents in this collection (Q/PSN/007 onwards) came from a solicitor's office at 14 Essex Street, Strand. This office was occupied c.1800 by Robert Blake, after 1856 by Edward and Henry Tylee, and before 1873 by E. and H. Tylee, Wickham and Moberly.
Dock Road Brewery, Dock Road, Newport, was run by Thomas Lloyd Lewis until sold in 1874 to Thomas Rotherham Phillips. The business was incorporated 1892 as Phillips and Sons Limited. Share capital was acquired by H and G Simonds in 1949; and the company was acquired by H and G Simonds in 1954. In liquidation 1954.
Phillips and Drew (or Phillips & Drew) was a large stockbroking partnership based in the City of London. The firm was established by George Allan Phillips (1862-1914) in the 1890s, initially operating as a sole trader in his own name. Harvey Richard Drew (known as Dick) became Phillips' chief clerk in 1892 and was subsequently made a partner in 1895, with the firm being renamed as G.A. Phillips and Company. The firm became Phillips and Drew in 1905 when Richard Drew's brother Geoffrey became a partner.
Initially Phillips and Drew was a small firm focused on managing the investments of private clients, but was reshaped in the 1940s and 1950s by an actuary, Sidney Perry. Perry joined the firm as a half commission man (i.e. someone whose pay was made up of half the commission they generated through dealing for clients they had introduced to the firm) in 1936. Along with a team he assembled, Perry built up a group of institutional clients, such as insurance companies and pension funds, with a focus on dealing in gilts, which proved highly profitable for the firm. The income from Perry's area of the business began to dwarf that of the other partners, and Perry went onto take ultimate control of the business in 1950, formally becoming senior partner in 1952. By the 1960s Phillips and Drew was one of largest firms of stockbrokers in Britain, with over 200 partners and staff in 1966.
Under Perry Phillips and Drew developed a reputation as a meritocracy, hiring staff by merit without the consideration for where a candidate had been educated or their social connections displayed in many other stockbroking firms. The papers in the collection demonstrate this through the care that was taken in hiring and mentoring staff. The work of Phillips and Drew's research department also enhanced the firm's reputation, and it became known as a scientific stockbroker and a key source of investment analysis and advice. Jonathan Rashleigh, who worked in the research department in the late 1940s and became a partner in 1951, produced a regular half yearly publication 'Selected Industrial Ordinary Shares' which showed the returns on capital employed for leading companies over decade. Rashleigh was also significant in the development of the 'cult of equity' in investment. Phillips and Drew were also innovators in the use of computers to analyse markets and evaluate the prices of stocks and shares. The firm's regular 'Pension Fund Indicators' and annual 'Surveys of Investment Management Arrangements' publications continued this tradition.
In 1984 the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) acquired a 29.9% interest in Phillips and Drew and went on to fully acquire the firm in 1986. By this time Phillips and Drew had a leading share of the UK gilts and fixed-interest markets and was the largest UK broker in convertible stocks and asset management. The company was renamed as UBS Phillips and Drew.
In 1987 UBS Phillips and Drew and County NatWest arranged a £837 million rights issue for one of their clients, Blue Arrow employment agency. To enable it to succeed both companies had to invest heavily in the shares themselves, but a subsequent stock market crash led the share prices to plummet and investors suggested that the companies' advisors had misled them. This led to a Department of Trade and Industry investigation and prosecution of the companies and eleven individuals, including four Phillips and Drew employees, for fraud. The trial of seven of these individuals and the companies became the second longest criminal trial in English history.
Use of the Phillips and Drew name was discontinued by UBS after 1992, but UBS's UK asset management business retained the name as Phillips & Drew Fund Management. This was eventually combined with other asset management firms to form the UBS Global Asset Management division in April 2002.
The firm was managed by its partners, led by the senior partner, and organised into departments such as loans, equity, pension funds, research, gilts and corporate finance. From 1968 the Partnership Policy Committee took a leading role on the firm's policy, and there were a number of other committees which existed to supervise the operation of different areas of the business and the work of specific departments. These included:
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the Staff Committee;
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the Research and Statistics Committee;
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the Computer Committee (previously known as the Premises Sub-committee or Premises (Mechanisation) Committee);
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the Office Administration and Accounts Committee, established in Jan 1966, which supervised organisation and methods within the firm particular matters overlapping more than one department of committee or outside their purview, and approved major items of capital expenditure;
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the Institutional Clients Committee;
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the Managed Funds Committee (established in Nov 1964);
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the Investment Record Committee;
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the Departmental Research Committee, established in Apr 1968, which issued a bulletin on the Research Department's work; and
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the Private Clients Group (established in Feb 1970).
There was also a Sports Committee, set up in January 1963, which oversaw the involvement of teams from the firm in various sporting events.
The company had a number of subsidiaries:
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Phillips and Drew Service Company, which ran its administrative services;
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Phildrew Nominees Limited, a nominee company;
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The Phillips & Drew Pension Fund, formed in 1952;
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The Phillips & Drew Service Company Pension Fund, formed in June 1961 and merged with the main company's scheme in 1965; and
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Phillips & Drew Pension Fund Trustees Limited, a company limited by guarantee established to hold stocks.
Phillips and Drew were also connected to Throgmorton Management Limited, which was incorporated in 1957 and provided investment advice to trust funds, including a number of pension funds. Throgmorton initially began with the management of Mars pension fund's investments and administration in 1958, and went onto administer John Smith's Tadcaster Pension Fund. Phillips and Drew were involved in setting up the company and provided office accommodation for Throgmorton.
Addresses: 2 St Michael's House, St Michael's Alley, Cornhill (1895); 70 Cornhill (1896- ); 4 Bishopsgate Street Within (1901); Palmerston House, 51 Bishopsgate/34 Old Broad Street (1914-1937); Capel House, New Broad Street (1937-1941); Pinners Hall, Austin Friars (1941-1963); Lee House, London Wall (1963-1982); 120 Moorgate (1982-). (All City of London).
General Office: 1-2 Great Winchester Street (1959); St Alphage House, 2 Fore Street, London Wall (1962 - 1963?); Regent House, 1 Hubert Road, Brentwood (1974).
Jersey Office: 60 Halkett Place, St Helier (1981); 17 Bond Street, St Helier (1984).
New York Office: Tower 56, 126 East 56th Street, New York, United States of America (1984).
Other addresses associated with the firm: Wood Street (1969); Triton Court, Finsbury Square (1984). (All City of London).
Sources: Phillips and Drew: Professionals in the City" by W.J. Reader and David Kynaston; Anecdotal Evidence: An Autobiography by Martin Gibbs; and "150 years of banking tradition" available at http://www.ubs.com/global/en/about_ubs/about_us/history.html (accessed 24th April 2013).
No information was discovered at the time of compilation.
Richard Cobden Phillips was a trader on the Congo river.
Born, 1875; educated, Bristol Grammar School; medical education, University College Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary and King's College, London; graduated bachelor of medicine with honours in obstetrics, 1900; ship's surgeon; house surgeon, Leicester Royal Infirmary; Bachelor of Surgery, London, 1903; postgraduate attachment at the London Hospital; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1903; resident house surgeon, Jessop Hospital for Women (JHW), Sheffield, 1904, honorary medical staff, JHW, 1906; president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, 1918-1920; senior surgeon, JHW, 1921-1935; part time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield, 1921-1935; member of the departmental committee on maternal mortality and morbidity, 1928; president of the obstetrics and gynaecology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1937; retired early to rural Carmarthenshire and studied the history of obstetrics, he was also instrumental in restoring the library of William Smellie; died, 1965.
Publications: Historical Review of British Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1800-1950, with J M Munro Kerr and R W Johnstone (Livingstone, 1954)
John Phillips was born at Marden in Wiltshire on 25 December 1800. On the death of both his parents, his uncle, the geologist, William Smith (1769-1839), was responsible for bringing up the young John Phillips. Phillips worked alongside his uncle in London, until the spring of 1824. In 1825 he was appointed Keeper of the museum in York. Phillips held several academic posts. He was appointed Professor of Geology at King's College London 1834, Professor of Geology at Trinity College Dublin in 1844 and Reader in Geology at Oxford University in 1856. He wrote widely on different aspects of Geology. Phillips was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1857 to 1874. He received honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Phillips died on 24 April 1874.
Daniel Phillips lived at East Bedfont for many years before his death in 1892. Kelly's Directory of Middlesex lists him as a resident in 1855. He bequeathed his residuary estate to his trustees, one of whom was his niece Mary Elizabeth Phillips. Miss Phillips was a member of a Quaker family who acquired property in Tottenham in the early nineteenth century. With her sister, Mrs. Alexander Fox, Miss Phillips founded in 1867 the North-Eastern Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, later known as The Queen's Hospital for Children. After a long illness Miss Phillips died on 20 January 1922. Her will contained many bequests to charities, and her real estate became the property of her nephew, John Phillips Fox.
Phillips trained as a nurse at King's College Hospital, 1914-1917, gaining General Nursing Council registration in 1922.
Thomas Phillipps was born in Manchester in 1792. He was brought up in Worcestershire by his father. He was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1815. Phillipps's father died in 1818 and thereafter he lived on a private income, although his passion for collecting books and manuscripts (which he indulged freely) meant that he was continually in debt and often on bad terms with suppliers and members of his family. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820 and a baronet in 1921. At the time of Phillipps's death in 1872 his collection comprised many thousands of volumes and it was took more than a century for all of it it to be broken up and gradually sold; the final lot was eventually sold in 1977.
James Orchard Halliwell was born in Chelsea and educated at Trinity College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839, and acted as an editor for the Camden Society (1839-1844), the Percy Society (1842-1850), and the Shakespeare Society. A renowned Shakespeare scholar, he arranged and described the Shakespeare archives at Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote extensively on the town, and initiated the movement for the purchase of the site of Shakespeare's house at New Place, [1863]. In 1842 Halliwell married Henrietta Phillipps against the wishes of her father, the book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, who remained implacably estranged from the couple for the rest of his life; however, on his death in 1872, Mr and Mrs Halliwell adopted the surname Halliwell-Phillipps.
Phillimore entered the Navy in 1835 and studied at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, until 1837. From 1837 to 1840 he served as a first-class volunteer and midshipman in the NORTH STAR and TWEED on the coast of Spain during the Carlist War. He was in the ENDYMION from 1840 to 1843 on the East Indies Station and during the First Chinese War, returning home in 1844 in the CORNWALLIS, flagship of Sir William Parker. He had been promoted to mate in 1842. In 1845 he was appointed to the HIBERNIA, Parker's flagship in the Mediterranean, and promoted to lieutenant in the same year. In 1847 he became Parker's Flag-Lieutenant. In 1849 he transferred with him to the QUEEN, on the same station. Phillimore later wrote a biography of Parker, The life of Sir William Parker (3 vols. London, 1876-1880). In 1852, he was promoted to commander and attended a course at the Royal Naval College, before sailing as Admiralty agent in the first mail steamer to Australia. From 1853 to 1855 he commanded the MEDEA in the West Indies and was promoted to captain in 1855. He was appointed to command the CURACOA on the south-east coast of South America in 1859 and was Senior Officer on the Station. He commanded the DEFENCE in the Channel from 1862 to 1866. Phillimore was Senior Officer at Jamaica from 1868 to 1869 and at Gibraltar from 1869 to 1873, becoming a rear-admiral in 1874. In 1876 he was second-in-command, Channel Squadron, and from 1876 to 1879 Admiral Superintendent of the Royal Naval Reserve. He was promoted to vice-admiral in 1879 and to admiral in 1884 and was Commander-in-Chief, Devonport, from 1884 to 1887, when he retired.
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Born 1897; resigned commission as Captain, 6 Battalion Devon Regiment, 1930; worked as a solicitor, 1930-1934; re-commissioned as Captain, 6 Battalion Devon Regiment, 1939; Major, 1943; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, 1944; Q (Movements) Staff, Inter-Allied Transport Commission, 1944-1947; Lieutenant Colonel, Devonshire Regiment (Short Service Officer) 1946; Colonel, 1948; retired, c 1954.
Ernest A Findorff was Commissioner of Commerce in Belgium and UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) consultant in the Philippines in 1969-1970.
John Philippart was born in London in 1784. He was educated at a military academy. In 1809 he became private secretary to John Baker Holroyd (later Earl of Sheffield) at the Board of Agriculture, and in 1911 he transferred to work at the War Office. Subsequently, he compiled many pamphlets and several reference books relating to the British Army. Philippart was actively involved in the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, serving as a chancellor of the Order for 43 years and founding the West London hospital in Hammersmith. He was a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and of two Swedish orders, and as such was sometimes called Sir John, although he was not knighted within the British honours system.
The firm was founded in 1793 by Philip Wilkinson and traded as Philip Wilkinson and Sons. Their premises for nearly 180 years were at 14-19 Tottenham Mews, Westminster. According to the family there was a connection with the brand Wilkinson Sword and the two companies traded together.
On 8 July 1926 an agreement (see LMA/4757/A/01/001) was made between Stanley Edward Washbourn, John Henry Hawes and Albert George Cross and Hilmor Limited of 71 Southwark Street, London where P Wilkinson and Sons sold the company Hilmor Tube Bending Machine under the name of P Wilkinson and Sons. After expansion Hilmor eventually moved to Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
On 1 May 1936 the firm was registered as P. Wilkinson and Sons Limited. The firm invented the Wilkalisol aluminium solder for which a Trade Mark was granted on 30 October, 1946 (see LMA/4757/A/01//003). Around this time advertisements boasted of its 'Castings in all non-ferrous metals from your own patterns or designs' with ‘various selections’ of stocks ranging from aluminum to copper rods, sheets and tubes being in stock. The author of an article in 1968 was impressed by how the workers finished pouring the brass at 8:30am 'which mean[t] starting at 4:30am' (see LMA/4757/D/01/001).
In 1972 the premises at Tottenham Street were sold and the company moved to Stanmore. In the same year the company became associated with R. H. Roseblade and Sons Ltd of 18 Minerva Road, Park Royal, Brent. The firm was run by Ron Roseblade and his two sons John and Martin. Wilkinsons also had close connections with G W. Lunts of Birmingham. During this time, several well-known memorials and castings were created in conjuction with Roseblade as well as Lunts. Four bronze servicemen on the War memorial outside Euston Station, the Wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall as well as the external lantern work at Victoria and Albert Museum all involved Wilkinsons’ metalworks.
Nigel Washbourn became an apprentice to the firm on 2nd September, 1955. In 1978, Stanley William Washbourn died and the firm continued to be run by Nigel until his retirement in 1999. In 1983 the company moved to Northwood, London. When Roseblades closed their business, Nigel Washbourn continued to work with Lunts Castings Limited, Unit 7 Hawthorns Estate, Middlemore Road, Birmingham. In 1998 P. Wilkinson and Sons Limited closed down but Nigel Washbourn remained a consultant to Lunts of Birmingham until 2016.
Robert G Philip spent many years as a religious minister in Glencairn, Dumfriesshire. During that time, he translated and studied the Heliand, an epic poem in Old Saxon, written about 825 AD. The title means 'Savior' in Old Saxon, and it recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic saga. Philip was the author of A Vision and a Voice: the awakening of today (1913).
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, 1775; apprenticed to a linen manufacturer in Leven; clerk in Dundee, 1794-1797; converted in the Haldane revival; studied at Hoxton Theological College for three years and entered the Congregational ministry; assistant in Newbury, Berkshire; minister at the first Scottish Congregational chapel in Aberdeen, 1804; married Jane Ross (d 1847), 1809; the work of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in South Africa was threatened with closure by the British authorities and as an LMS director went on a deputation, with the Rev John Campbell, to investigate, 1818; arrived in Cape Town, 1819; prevented by a war from travelling beyond the colony; found the mission stations neglected and colonial opinion against the missionaries' benign relations with indigenous people; believed the population to be oppressed by the settlers; appointed to remain in South Africa as LMS superintendent, 1820; his wife, Jane, was the de facto LMS administrative secretary there; Doctor of Divinity, Princetown College, New Jersey, USA, 1820; travelled extensively to inspect mission stations within and beyond the colony and to collect evidence supporting his theories, 1820-1826; pastor of the new Union chapel in Cape Town, 1822; campaigned for civil rights for the 'Cape Coloured' people, who formed a number of LMS congregations, 1823; visited Britain to lobby for their civil rights, 1826; the campaign achieved success and, following Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton's motion in the House of Commons, the Cape government was ordered to implement Philip's recommendations, 1828; Philip hoped that the Christian `mini-state' the Griqua people, aided by the LMS, had formed beyond the Cape Colony frontier would become a model for other indigenous peoples; while in Europe, solicited the Paris Evangelical Mission Society and the Rhenish Missionary Society to begin work in South Africa; corresponded with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to persuade them to come; advocated the idea that only Africans could convert Africa ('native agency'); returned to Africa to increased unpopularity from the white population, 1829; a libel suit by William Mackay, one of the officials accused by Philip in his Researches in South Africa, resulted in a unanimous verdict for Mackay, 1830; visited stations within and beyond the colony, 1832-1833; accompanied Coloured and Xhosa Christians to London to give evidence before a parliamentary committee and rouse public opinion against the Cape government, 1836; the committee's report supported his views, but his insistence that much of the responsibility for the war lay with the British authorities and white colonists brought hostility from much of the white population in the Cape, 1837; returned to South Africa, 1837-1838; travelled extensively to promote his scheme for establishment of independent states north and east of the colony, 1839, 1842; following a war (1846) Philip withdrew from public affairs, 1849; retired to Hankey; died, 1851; admired by the Coloured, Griqua, Sotho and Xhosa peoples, he was buried in the Coloured graveyard of a Coloured township. Publication: Researches in South Africa, illustrating the civil, moral and religious condition of the Native Tribes (2 volumes, 1828).
Born, Kincardineshire, Scotland,1873; educated at Fordoun Public School; Aberdeen Grammar School; Aberdeen University; Göttingen University, Germany, 1896-1897; Assistant to C T Heycock and F H Neville of Cambridge; worked at the Central Technical College research laboratory, 1897-1898; part-time lecturer, 1899, Demonstrator and Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, 1900, Royal College of Science; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1909-1913, Professor of Physical Chemistry, 1913-1938, Imperial College; OBE, 1918; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1921; Secretary, 1913-1924, and President, 1941, of the Chemical Society; Chairman, Bureau of Chemical Abstracts, 1923-1932; Member of the Senate, University of London, 1932-1938; President, Section B (Chemistry), British Association, 1936; Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry; Deputy Rector, Imperial College, 1939; President, Society of Chemical Industry, 1939-1941; died, 1941.
Publications: include: Physical Chemistry; its bearing on biology and medicine (Edward Arnold, London, 1910); The Romance of Modern Chemistry. A description in non-technical language of the diverse and wonderful ways in which chemical forces are at work, and of their manifold application in modern life (Seeley & Co, London, 1910); Achievements of Chemical Science (1913); The Chemical Society, 1841-1941. A historical review with Tom Sidney Moore (London, 1947).
The organisation probably dates from 1311/12. Thereafter until 1438 there are references to the masters of the misteries of Cooks, Pastelers and Piebakers, later amalgamated into the Cooks of East Cheap and Bread Street. The first grant of arms was in 1461 and the first charter in 1482. The Hall was situated on Aldersgate Street but burned down in 1771 and was not rebuilt.
Born 1885; educated Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, 1904; Indian Civil Service; posted to the Punjab, 1908; civilian administrator, Mesopotamian expeditionary force, 1915; personal assistant to Percy Cox; head of a mission to Ibn Sa'ud, ruler of the Nejd in central Arabia, 1917; long leave in England; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1919-1960; RGS Gold Medallist - Founder's Medal, 1920; recalled to Baghdad to help with the administration of the new state of Iraq; British representative in Transjordan, 1921-1924; left public service, 1925; settled in Jiddah, founded a trading company, Sharqieh Ltd, and became a close friend and an unofficial adviser of Ibn Sa'ud; made a series of explorations, of which the greatest was his crossing of the Empty Quarter,1932; converted to Islam and assumed the name Saudis Sheikh Abdullah, 1930; stood as an anti-war candidate in a by-election in Hythe, 1939; arrested in Bombay, taken to England, and imprisoned briefly under wartime regulations, 1940; involved for a time with the Common Wealth party; returned to Arabia; after the death of Ibn Sa'ud in 1953 his outspoken criticisms of the extravagance and corruption under the new king led in 1955 to his exile in the Lebanese village of Ajaltun; died, 1960.
William Aubrey Phelp was the vicar of the parish of Stanwell from 1792 to 1839.
Possibly Joseph Phelan, MD Glasgow 1785, LRCP 1786, naval surgeon.
Ivor Pfuell was born in Shobdon, Herefordshire. He gave a number of lectures on the history and development of London for which the slides that form this collection were produced. He was author of History of Shobdon, illustrated by Royston Ecroyd and published in 1995.
Karl-Heinz Pfeffer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1906. He studied English literature and sociology at university, becoming particularly interested in the study of Australian society. In the 1930s he took up a teaching post at the University of Leipzig and was known as a member of the 'Leipzig School' of sociologists. A committed supporter of Nazism, he spent the years of the Second World War teaching on aspects of Europe and the British Empire at Berlin University. After the war, he re-established his academic career in West Germany.
Peyton and Peyton Tube Company Limited were metallic bedstead makers. They had offices at 49 Long Acre, Covent Garden and 46 Moorgate Street, EC; and a works at Bordesley, Birmingham.
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.
An assignment of term, or assignment to attend the inheritance, was an assignment of the remaining term of years in a mortgage to a trustee after the mortgage itself has been redeemed. An assignment of a lease is the transfer of the rights laid out in the lease to another party, usually for a consideration (a sum of money).
Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
Thomas Pettigrew was born in London in 1791, the son of William Pettigrew, a naval surgeon. He began medical studies in his teens as his father's assistant and as an apprentice, later studying at the Borough Hospitals. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1812 (and a fellow in 1843). In 1808 he became a member of the Medical Society of London, in 1811 one of its Secretaries, and in 1813 its Registrar. During these years he was also involved in the founding of the City Philosophical Society and the Philosophical Society of London. He was Secretary of the Royal Humane Society during the years 1813-1820, through the influence of John Coakley Lettsom M.D. (1744-1815); shortly after Lettsom's death he published Memoirs of the life and writings of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817). Through his position in the Royal Humane Society he came into contact with the Duke of Kent to whom he became surgeon in ordinary (vaccinating the Duke's daughter, the future Queen Victoria). He later also became surgeon to the Duke of Sussex and became involved in the cataloguing of the Duke's library. He acted as Surgeon to a sequence of London hospitals until arriving at his forties. After this point he concentrated on private practice and increasingly upon his antiquarian interests: when the British Archaeological Society was founded in 1843 Pettigrew became its treasurer and moving spirit. On his wife's death in 1854 he retired from medicine entirely to concentrate on antiquarian matters. He died in 1865.
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer was born in southern Germany in 1818; attended high school in Munich and then studied pharmacy, natural science and medicine, qualifying with a Phd in medicine, surgery and midwifery, 1843. Pettenkofer then applied to join Liebig's laboratory at Giessen, having to wait two years to enter. During these two years he studied at Würzberg, devising the test for bile acid that bears his name and started research into meat juices which inspired Liebig to investigate them.
Pettenkofer left Giessen to seek better-paid employment in Munich; was appointed Extraordinary Professor of Pathological Chemistry at the University of Munich, 1847 and was promoted to Ordinary Professor 8 years later. Pettenkofer became Chief of the Court Pharmacy and Apothecary to the Court, 1850 and began investigating John Snow's thesis that cholera and typhoid were water-borne, following epidemics in Munich. Results of his investigation convinced him that the cause lay in the moisture content of the soil which varied with the rise and fall of ground water. Despite his fallacious theories Pettenkofer's sanitary work improved the health of Munich. Pettenkofer refused to believe in the germ theory and is said to have drunk a vial of water contaminated by Vibrio cholerae which was sent to him by Robert Koch, assuring Koch that he remained in his usual good health. There is a theory that this was a death wish in disguise as he later committed suicide in 1901.
Publications: Cholera: how to prevent and resist it (Baillière Tindall, & Cox, London, 1883); Outbreak of cholera among convicts : an etiological study of the influence of dwelling, food, drinking-water, occupation, age, state of health, and intercourse upon the course of cholera in a community living in precisely the same circumstances (Asher, London, 1876) and The value of health to a city: two lectures delivered in 1873 (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1941).
Born, 1924; student at the School of English, King's College London, 1942; BA English at Birkbeck College, University of London, 1943-; returned to King's as a member of the Faculty of Theology, 1946; awarded BD and AKC, 1948; King's postgraduate theological college (St. Boniface College, Warminster) for the final year of his ordination training; ordained, 1949; Sacrist at Gloucester Cathedral, 1954-1958; School Chaplain and taught English, King's School, Gloucester, 1954-1958; resident Chaplain at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, 1966-1983; died, 2005.
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Petrie was born in Charlton and educated privately. He worked on many excavation sites, mostly in Egypt. He was Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1892 to 1933, and Emeritus Professor from 1933. He published many works on excavation. Petrie was knighted in 1923.
Leon Petrazycki (1864-1931) was born in Witebsk, a province of Poland then under Russian rule. He studied at Kiev University and later undertook post graduate work in Berlin. From 1897 to 1931 he was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Warsaw.
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John Petherick was a traveller in East Central Africa. He entered the service of Mehemet Ali, and was employed in examining Upper Egypt, Nubia, the Red Sea coast and Kordofan in an unsuccessful search for coal, 1845-1848; trader at El Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, 1848; British consular agent for Sudan; ivory trader in Khartum, 1853; travelled extensively in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region, then almost unknown, exploring the Jur River, Yalo and other affluents of the Bahr el Ghazal river; explored the Niam-Niam country, 1858; returned to England, 1859; British consul in Sudan, 1861; Royal Geographical Society mission to convey to Gondokoro relief stores for Captains Speke and Grant, 1862; returned to England, 1865, and adopted the profession of mining engineer; died, 1882.
The Petersfield Women's Suffrage Society (c 1911-1933) was established sometime prior to Jun 1911 with the Countess of Shelborne as its patron. That same year, it was able to distribute 3000 copies of a free suffrage newspaper in the area. The following year it was affiliated to the Federated Council of Suffrage Societies. It later changed its name to the Petersfield Society for Equal Citizenship and continued its activities until 1933. The St Pancras Society came into being some time before 1927 and continued its work after 1930.
Having attended Stubbington House School, Fareham, Peters trained as a cadet on HMS BRITANNIA, at Dartmouth. He went to sea in 1904 and served in the North Sea throughout the First World War, in HMS SOUTHAMPTON and ORION, being present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland. He was then appointed 1st Lieutenant of the Signal School at Portsmouth. From 1925 to 1927, Peters was executive officer and second in command of a cruiser at the New Zealand station. He was then appointed Commander of the EREBUS, a training ship for direct entry cadets, at Portsmouth. Peters' later appointments include Senior Naval Officer, West Coast of Africa, Commander of HMS SOUTHAMPTON (1936-1938), Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong (1939-1940), Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty (1941-1942) and Flag Officer Commanding West Africa (1943-1945). Peters was promoted to rear-admiral in 1940, vice-admiral in 1943 and admiral in 1946. He retired in 1946 and received a KCB n that year.
Richard Stanley Peters was born in India in 1919. As a child he was sent to live with his grandmother in England where he attended boarding school. From 1933-1938 Peters attended Clifton College, Bristol, and then proceeded to study for an Arts Degree at Queen's College, Oxford University from 1938-1940 (he was awarded a war degree in 1942). In 1940 he joined the Friends Ambulance Service and was drafted to London during the Blitz. From 1944 to 1946 he was Classics Master at Sidcot Grammar School, Somerset.
In 1946 he was granted a Studentship (to study Philosophy and Psychology) at Birkbeck College, where he also worked as a part-time Lecturer. Peters graduated with a BA in 1946 and a PhD in 1949. He was then subsequently a Lecturer (1949-1958) and Reader (1958-1962) in Philosophy at Birkbeck. In 1962 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, a post that he held until his retirement in 1982.
Among other roles, Peters was Visiting Professor of Education, Harvard University, 1961; Visiting Professor, Australian National University, 1962; Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of London, 1971-1974; Member of the American National Academy of Education, 1966; Chair, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
Richard Lower was born, 1631; education, Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford, 1651-1665; had established an active medical practice in Oxford; established himself as an important medical researcher; relocated to London to establish a medical practice, 1666; maintained his research activities for several years after arriving in London but devoted himself increasingly to clinical medicine; Fellow of the College of Physicians, 1675; Royal Physician, 1675; died, 1691.
The Peterborough Schools for Girls, Boys and Infants, were opened on 26 August 1901 by the School Board for London. From 1905, the site included an Invalid School. This section of the school was transferred to and amalgamated with the invalid school at Queensmill Road School, Lysia Street, Fulham, in 1939. It was relocated to Peterborough School in 1992, but remained known as Queensmill School.
Peterborough School was evacuated in August 1939, and reopened on 27 October 1942. In September 1969 the boys' and girls' schools amalgamated to form Peterborough Junior Mixed School, and in 1983, the junior and infant schools amalgamated. By 1992, the school was known as Peterborough Primary School. The school was closed in July 2008.
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
An assignment of term, or assignment to attend the inheritance, was an assignment of the remaining term of years in a mortgage to a trustee after the mortgage itself has been redeemed. An assignment of a lease is the transfer of the rights laid out in the lease to another party, usually for a consideration (a sum of money).
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".