Collection GB 0074 CLC/432 - CHAMPNESS, WILLIAM HENRY {SIR}

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GB 0074 CLC/432 1873-1938 Collection 8 production units. Champness , Sir , William Henry , 1873-1956 , knight , solicitor

Major Sir William Henry Champness was born in March 1873, the son of William John Champness. He married Elizabeth Butler in 1896 and had one son. Elizabeth died in 1939 and Champness married widow Ethel Harding in 1946. He lived at Knole Way, Sevenoaks, Kent. Champness was a solicitor who was involved in several City of London institutions. He was a Master of the Spectalemakers' Company and the Plumbers' Company; President of the City Livery Club; a governor of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals and the City and Guilds Institute; Chairman of various City Corporation Committees; a Sheriff of the City of London, 1937-38; one of the Lieutenants of the City from 1917; and an Alderman's Deputy from 1931. He was knighted in 1938. Champness conducted antiquarian research in his spare time and published histories of the Spectablemakers' Company and Plumbers' Company. He died in October 1956.

Biographical information from 'CHAMPNESS, Major Sir William Henry', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920-2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U235642, accessed 1 June 2011].

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1973 and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Major Sir William Henry Champness, comprising journals recording his years as undersheriff and sheriff of the City of London, 1928-1938, autobiographical notes, 1873-1925 and personal diaries, 1926-1938.

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

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, see CLC/L/SH and for the Worshipful Company of Plumbers see CLC/L/PH.

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.

Records prepared May to September 2011. Nonfiction Diaries Information sources Documents Primary documents Personal papers Organizations Associations Guilds Trade guilds Archives Personal archives People People by occupation Personnel Local government personnel Sheriffs Champness , Sir , William Henry , 1873-1956 , knight , solicitor Worshipful Company of Plumbers Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers Corporation of London x City of London City of London London England UK Western Europe Europe Prose Literary forms and genres Literature

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1973 and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Major Sir William Henry Champness, comprising journals recording his years as undersheriff and sheriff of the City of London, 1928-1938, autobiographical notes, 1873-1925 and personal diaries, 1926-1938.

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

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

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English

For the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, see CLC/L/SH and for the Worshipful Company of Plumbers see CLC/L/PH.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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.

• anglais