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        GB 0074 O/468 · Collection · 1865-1873

        Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and assignment for 8 Stanford Street, Pimlico, Westminster, with stable at rear of 9 Stanford Street, 1865-1873.

        Kenwright, Lake and Company , solicitors
        GB 0074 Q/KAS · Collection · 1549-1808

        This collection consists of legal and property papers relating mainly to London and Middlesex.

        Various.
        GB 0074 A/KNW · Collection · 1936-1977

        Records of the Kensington Welfare Association and other related welfare associations, 1936-1977.

        Minute book of the Kensington Welfare Association, 1955-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Rescue and Preventative Work, 1936-1945. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Moral Welfare, 1946-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington and Chelsea Deaneries Welcare Association, 1969-1977. Annual report of the Fulham Ruri-Decanal Council for Moral Welfare Work, 1949-1950.

        Circular of the Deanery Association for Moral Welfare Work, 1955. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, 1959-1963. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Wel-care, 1972-1977. Annual report of the London Council for Welfare of Women and Girls, 1965-1966.

        Kensington Welfare Association , London Diocesan Council for Welcare x Kensington Association for Rescue and Preventative Work
        KEMPTON MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/0248 · Collection · 1676-1748

        Records of the Manor of Colkennington alias Kempton, comprising court rolls for views of frankpledge and courts baron, and a survey.

        Manor of Colkennington alias Kempton
        KELK, Sir John (fl 1857)
        GB 0074 ACC/0502 · Collection · 1728-1863

        Documents relating to the Bentley Priory estate in Harrow and Aylwards estate in Great Stanmore; including mortgage, covenants, surrenders, lease and releases, plans, grants, and conveyances.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/0830 · Collection · 1871-1872

        Papers, 1871-1872, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising an abstract of title for The Woodside, Two Chimney House and properties and freehold lands adjoining Finchley Lodge; and plan of freehold building estate known as Torrington Park, Woodside, Finchley.

        Keary, Stokes and White , solicitors
        GB 0074 LMA/4277 · Collection · 1652-1890

        A collection of deeds, wills and other documents including a declaration of trust, leases, a licence and a banquet invitation.

        Various.
        GB 0074 B/JUS · Collection · 1846-1935 (client papers from 1776).

        Records of Justice and Pattenden, solicitors, 1849-1935. Records of the firm include day books, letter books, bill books and one account book. Clients' papers include deeds relating to property, mainly in London and family and estate papers.

        Justice and Pattenden , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0882 · Collection · 1734-1906

        Papers, 1734-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ashford, Brentford, Harrow and Teddington.

        Julius White and Bywaters , solicitors
        Juby, Alan James
        GB 2127 JUBY, A J · 1926-1984

        Papers, 1926-1984, of Alan James Juby, relating to the development of anaesthesia and anaesthetic apparatus.

        Records relating to Juby's career comprise typescript lease of premises at no 34 Devonshire Street, St Marylebone, London, to Arthur Charles King, 1926; typescript financial accounts of A Charles King Ltd, 1942, 1946; printed catalogue with illustrations of anaesthetic apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd, undated [mid-20th century]; typescript copy letter from I W Magill to the Editor of The Lancet, 1942, concerning A Charles King's inquiry in 1932 for rotameters for gas and oxygen rather than anaesthetic flowmeters then in use, and their subsequent adoption; records relating to patent specifications, including photographs of apparatus, for Juby's work for A Charles King and subsequently for the British Oxygen Company Ltd, for improvements in retaining devices for anaesthetic mouthpieces, 1929, a portable stand for gas cylinders, 1929, an instrument for introducing intra-tracheal catheters, 1929, improvements in endotracheal tubes, 1953, improvements in cuffed catheters, 1955, improvements in gas-administering apparatus, 1956, connectors for endotracheal tubes, 1959, and means for producing a spray of gas-entrained liquid, 1960.

        Records relating to organisations comprise reports and notices of meetings, lectures and other events, 1937-1984, of organisations including the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Anaesthetists, and the British Oxygen Company Ltd; dinner menus (some with collected signatures) and other ephemera, 1955-1971, including photographs including British Oxygen Company events, 1956-1957, and undated menu belonging to A Charles King.

        Other records comprise printed booklets, articles, brochures, leaflets, diagrams and typescripts, 1939-1976, on subjects in anaesthetics including equipment (including apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd and the British Oxygen Company Ltd), the development of anaesthetic techniques and drugs, and the history of anaesthesia and eminent anaesthetists including printed Inventory of the A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus present to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by A Charles King March 6th 1953; copies of the K Bryn Thomas's article, 'The A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol xxv, no 4 (Oct 1970); and various British Standards, 1950-1970, on anaesthetic and other medical equipment.

        Juby , Alan James , fl 1929-1984 , anaesthetic instrument maker
        Joseph Thomas Papers
        GB 0103 THOMAS · 1939-1981

        Papers and correspondence, 1939-1981, of Professor Joseph Anthony Charles Thomas concerning his work, comprising manuscript and typescript notes for lectures attended while a student at Cambridge, 1939-1947; typescripts and manuscripts for The Institutes of Justinian; typescripts and manuscripts, including translations, for various articles, lectures and talks, some unpublished; texts for his lectures at Nottingham, 1953-1954, Glasgow, 1955-1961, and University College London, 1965-1980 and undated; general correspondence, 1953-1978, correspondence concerning book reviews, 1962-1980, correspondence concerning articles, 1966-1969, 1975-1981, and correspondence concerning outside talks, A Casebook on Contract, Textbook of Roman Law, and The Institutes of Justinian.

        Thomas , Joseph Anthony Charles , 1923-1981 , Professor of Roman Law
        JONES AND SONS {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/0387 · Collection · 1758-1920

        Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents, copies of court rolls from Ruislip Manor and the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, sale particulars, lease and releases, deeds, mortgages, conveyances, marriage settlements and assignments relating to properties in Acton, 1866-1903; Enfield, 1882-1920; Finchley, 1885-1912; Friern Barnet, 1887-1900; Harefield, 1767-1854; Hornsey and Tottenham, 1880-1919; Harrow and Ruislip, 1758-1913; Willesden, 1881-1900, and Stoke Newington, 1892-1910. Also business partnership agreements between Hodson, Smith Gale and others of Tottenham for brickmaking, building, selling and letting of houses.

        Jones and Sons , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/1292 · Collection · 1804-1897

        Records of Charles Johnston, businessman, including property transactions, probates and administrations; papers relating to Johnston's marriage settlement; correspondence; financial accounts; sales catalogues; papers relating to charities in Cheshunt; papers regarding Johnston's insanity and his financial affairs; letters to Johnston in his capacity as the chairman of the English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank; papers of the New Granada Company including annual reports, prospectus, correspondence, shares and papers relating to liquidation.

        Also papers of Edmund Johnston including property transactions, financial records and papers relating to his estate.

        Johnston , Charles , 1801-1865 , businessman
        J.L.C. PERRY {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/0886 · Collection · 1853-1855

        Mortgage and lease for Paradise Terrace, Milton Road, Hornsey, 1853 and 1855; leases for property in Shepperton; copies of court roll for Isleworth Syon Manor relating to parcel of land in Grosvenor Road, Twickenham with two messuages, stables, coach houses and buildings known as Grosvenor House and Grosvenor Cottage; and deed of composition and release releasing Joseph Blake of Harrow, linen draper, from his debts.

        J L C Perry , solicitors
        JESSOPS {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/2957 · Collection · 1870-1934

        Papers, 1870-1934, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 178 and 180 High Street, Deptford; including leases and mortgages.

        Jessops , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0435 · Collection · 1600?-1936

        Records of the Child and Jersey families relating to their estates. Papers relating to the Manor of Osterley, Heston include wills, deeds, papers relating to the Jersey title to the manor, steward's accounts, fee books, quit rents, bailiffs bills, rent rolls, enclosure awards, plans, correspondence, sales particulars, court books, minute books, surrenders, licences to demise and warrants. Also papers relating to the Manor of Hayes with Norwood and Southall, including admissions, surrenders and enfranchisements, quit rents, and court papers; and "Isleworth Syon's Peace", volume of agreements dating to 1656.

        Jersey , family , of Osterley Park Child , family , bankers
        JERSEY FAMILY AND ESTATE
        GB 0074 ACC/0405 · Collection · 1806-1934

        Records of the Child and Jersey families, including property transactions relating to properties in Norwood, Southall, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, and Saint George Hanover Square; sales particulars; tithe records; public utility undertakings; legal papers; estate papers; plans and rentals.

        Various.
        JERSEY FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0331 · Collection · 1715?-1931

        Papers of the Child and Jersey families, including household accounts of Robert Child comprising bills, receipts, and insurance policies for premises in St Clement Danes, Westminster; leases and agreements for premises in Westminster; household accounts for Lord Jersey including bills, receipts and expenses; papers relating to the Jersey estates including rentals, quit rents and fines for the manors of Northall, Norwood, Southall and Heston, and lists of the tenants; and maps of the Heston Enclosure Award 1818.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/2163 · Collection · 1835-1881

        Papers, 1835-1881, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Commercial Road, Mile End and Stepney, including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages, covenant for production of deeds and notices.

        Jerome and Company , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/3206 · Collection · 1882-1951

        Papers, 1882-1951, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising agreements relating to No. 35 Cumberland Park, Acton (formerly No. 5 Goldsmiths Gardens) and deeds relating to 'Hillside', later 'Hillbre' and 'High Trees' No. 9 Pinner Hill Road, Pinner.

        Jaques and Lewis , solicitors
        GB 0114 MS0042 · 1933-1945

        Papers of Robert Rutson James, 1933-1945, comprising transcripts of sources relating to 17th and 18th century surgeons: transcripts of the Admiralty Surgeon's Passing Certificates, 1933-1934; transcripts of the Barber Surgeon's Apprentice Books, 1936; transcripts of the Freemen of the Barber Surgeon's Company, c 1936; transcripts of the Warden's Great Account Book, c 1930s; transcripts of the Lambeth Archbishop's Licences, 1937; transcripts of Fleet Prison Marriage Registers, 1930s-1940s; transcripts of Medical Wills, 1933; transcripts of the List of Marriage Licences from the Harleian Society, including some medical wills, 1933-1945; and transcripts of the St George's Hospital Pupil Register, c 1930.

        James , Robert Rutson , 1881-1959 , surgeon
        JAMES FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0976 · Collection · 1705-1854

        Records of the novelist George Payne Rainsford James and his family, a total of about 350 items, with documents relating to other families, either short series or isolated items. There are several wills and settlements among the papers (ACC/0976/136-155). The manuscript of chapters 14-22 of the novel Ehrenstein is preserved among these archives (ACC/0976/163). There is a series of title deeds to an entailed estate at Hampton Wick and Teddington inherited by James; papers relating to law-suits with various publishers (ACC/0976/156-171); and a petition to the Foreign Secretary (ACC/0976/222).

        James , George Payne Rainsford , 1799-1860 , novelist
        GB 0074 B/FLT · Collection · 1808-1896

        Records of James F Fletcher Limited, funeral directors, 1808-1896. The records relate both to the firm, James F. Fletcher Limited, and to the Fletcher family and consist mainly of legal documents such as wills and leases.

        James F Fletcher Limited , funeral directors
        GB 0074 O/025 · Collection · 1799-1887

        Papers, 1799-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising marriage settlements, receipts and memoranda.

        Jackson and Awdry , solicitors
        J. LYONS AND COMPANY LIMITED
        GB 0074 ACC/3527 · Collection · 1891-1995

        Records of J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, 1891-1995. The archives reflect all aspects of the company's history. There are some of the usual company records relating to management, shareholding and administration, but the collection is particularly strong in what may be termed ephemera. There are hundreds of photographs, from 1887 up to the present day, a few films and videos, and large collections of press cuttings, advertisements, menus and even a set of lithographs which were commissioned by the company after the Second World War as a way of brightening up Lyons Corner Houses.

        J Lyons and Company Limited , food manufacturers and caterers
        ISLEWORTH SYON MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/1161 · Collection · 1661-1683

        Extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Isleworth Syon relating to the ownership of property in Isleworth.

        Manor of Isleworth Syon , Corporation of London
        GB 0074 ACC/3212 · Collection · 1879-1926

        Papers, 1879-1926, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to Brigadier Hill House, Enfield (later Browning Road Estate), and to land in Cedar Park Road, Enfield, formerly part of Browning Road Estate.

        Ingledew, Brown, Bennison and Garrett , solicitors
        GB 0074 B/IND/GLCC · Collection · 1827-1875

        Records of the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company, 1827-1875, comprising minutes of Directors and Shareholders meetings with some enclosures including letters, notices, circulars, and prospectuses.

        Independent Gas Light and Coke Company , 1824-1876
        GB 0074 B/IMP/GLC · Collection · 1821-1878

        Records of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, 1821-1878, including Directors' meeting minutes and orders; Shareholders' meeting signed minutes; Committee for General Purposes signed minutes; Committee for Works signed minutes; Committee for Accounts signed minutes; appointments and emoluments of Officers; Committee for Works rough minutes; summary of half-yearly accounts of Metropolitan Gas Companies including The Imperial, Gas Light and Coke Company, Commercial, Independent, Ratcliff, London, Phoenix, South Metropolitan and Surrey Consumers and bound volume of Acts relating to the Company, Gas, Public Companies and so on.

        Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company
        ILLIDGE FAMILY
        GB 0074 CLC/466 · Collection · 1641-1936

        Papers of the Illidge family concerning private and family matters almost entirely, with little reference to business affairs. They include numerous deeds and records of family property in Brixton and in Dartford, Kent, and Rayleigh, Essex.

        Illidge , family , of Brixton and Rayleigh
        ICKENHAM MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/0640 · Collection · 1252-1922

        Records of the Manor of Ickenham, including court baron rolls and documents relating to property transfer, including grants, agreements and memorials.

        Manor of Ickenham
        GB 0074 ACC/0370 · Collection · 1802-1935

        Legal documents, copies of wills and deeds, 1802-1935, relating to properties and estates in various locations including Pinner, the City of London, Woolwich and Islington. Also probate of will of James Yates of Lauderdale House, Highgate, including bequest of railway stock to University College, London to found Professorship of Archaeology, 1871.

        Hyde, Mahon and Pascall , solicitors
        HUNT, William
        GB 0074 ACC/3532 · Collection · 1848-1849

        Papers regarding a dispute over the ownership of 1 Dale Place, Apothecary's Row, Wandsworth, including copy of the will of Charles Bostuck of Wandsworth bequeathing the property to Martha Jordan and her family, 184-; papers relating to action of trespass and ejectment, John Doe v William Hunt, at the Guildford Assizes, 1848-49, including lists of jurors, writs of distraint, writs to witnesses; and papers relating to a Queen's Bench plea in the case of Doe (Henry Parker Leigh, Martha his wife, William and Elizabeth Thompson, Sarah Jordan and Maria Slocombe) v. William Hunt, including lists of documents used as evidence, note of fees, counsel's opinion, and abstract of title showing the right of Henry Parker Leigh, Martha his wife, William and Elizabeth Thompson, Sarah Jordan and Maria Slocombe to the property, 1849.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/2099 · Collection · 1900-1925

        Papers, 1900-1925, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Tottenham, Stoke Newington, and Chiswick, including leases, agreements, correspondence, mortgages and deed of covenant.

        Humphreys and Parsons , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0959 · Collection · 1865-1887

        Papers, 1865-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate of will of Veere Woodman of Great Stanmore, farmer; probate of will of Elizabeth Woodman of Great Stanmore, widow and probate of will of Richard Pyatt of No. 4 Hill Martin Villas, Nightingale Road, Wood Green, gentleman.

        Hughes, Minton and Barker , solicitors
        HOWELL, John (fl 1700)
        GB 0074 ACC/0161 · Collection · 1694-1768

        Title deeds for property owned by John Howell of Lincoln's Inn and Enfield. The properties were situated in Stepney, Westminster and Southwark.

        Various.
        HOWARD FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0657 · Collection · 1765-1822

        Papers of the Howard family including marriage settlements, wills and probates, mortgages and other property documents for premises in St. George Hanover Square and St Marylebone.

        Various.
        HOSPITAL OF THE SAVOY
        GB 0074 BRA/846 · Collection · 1558-1639

        Records of the Hospital of the Savoy, comprising grant of lands, bargain and sales, grant of annuity, and lease.

        Various.
        GB 0074 PS/HOR · Collection · 1975-1999

        Records of Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court, 1975-1999, including court registers; domestic proceedings; licensing and protection orders; rates registers; probation orders; adoption cases and custodianship cases.

        Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

        Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

        Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court , 1974-2006 The City of Westminster Magistrates' Court , 2006-
        HOLY CROSS, GREENFORD
        GB 0074 ACC/0937 · Collection · 1776

        Survey map of the parish of Holy Cross, Greenford, by R Binfield of Eton, 1776. Glebe, freehold and copyhold land are identified by coloured boundaries.

        R Binfield
        HOLMES FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0489 · Collection · 1790-1877

        Title deeds for Vartry Lodge (also known as Albion Lodge), Tottenham, including leases, releases, conveyances, and mortgages.

        Various.
        HOLLOND FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0531 · Collection · 1589-1921

        Papers of the Hollond family relating to properties in Saint Marylebone and Great Stanmore.

        Papers of the Child family relating to Gough Park in Enfield, property in Hornsey, slate quarries in Wales and the family business as West India merchants, including documents relating to sugar plantations in Jamaica.

        Papers of the Whipham family relating to properties in Harmondsworth, Stanwell and Acton, particularly legal papers relating to landowners' rights of common on Old Oak Common, Acton.

        Various.
        HOLLAND FAMILY
        GB 0074 E/IT · Collection · 1805-1938

        Papers of the Holland family relating to leasehold premises, 21 Shaftesbury Terrace, Warwick Road, Kensington (re-named and re-numbered 139 Warwick Road in 1890).

        Various.
        HODSON FAMILY
        GB 0074 E/HOD · Collection · 1507-1835

        Papers of the Hodson family relating to their properties in London, including

        1. St. Martin's-le-Grand, City of London, property,
        2. Southwark and Camberwell properties,
        3. E. Wickham property, Kent,
        4. Lambeth property,
        5. Properties in London, Westminster, Islington and Fulham, formerly part of the estate of Elizabeth Pratt; found with the Hodson deeds,
        6. Probates and deeds of unknown provenance, found with the Hodson deeds.
        Hodson , family , of Kent
        GB 0074 O/222 · Collection · 1868 - 1879

        Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising schedule of deeds relating to 1, Vicarage Rd., Camberwell, belonging to Robert P. Whellock, 1868 and administration, with will annexed, of Samuel May, 32, Bridge Row, London, commercial traveller, 15 June, 1872 and 13 March 1879.

        Hodgkinson and Beevor , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/1598 · Collection · 1827-1919

        Papers, 1827-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint John's Wood, Saint Marylebone and Hampstead including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages and an abstract of title.

        Hodge, Lloyd and Gibson , solicitors
        HITCHINS FAMILY
        GB 0074 O/108 · Collection · 1769-1921

        Records of the Hitchins family, comprising documents relating to the ownership of 39 Curzon Street, Mayfair, 1769-1921, including leases, abstracts of title, wills, assignments, schedules of fixtures, plans and elevations, and undertakings to repair.

        Various.
        HIRD, Charles (fl 1820-1898)
        GB 0074 E/HRD · Collection · 1820-1898

        Records relating to property owned by Charles Hird in St Pancras, Marylebone and Peckham.

        Hird , Charles , fl 1820-1898
        HILLINGDON (LORD) ESTATE
        GB 0074 ACC/0401 · Collection · 1381-1905

        Records of the Mills family of Hillingdon, including court rolls for the Manors of Hayes, Northolt, and Northwood; documents relating to property transactions in Middlesex, Westminster and the City of London; maps; sales particulars; marriage settlements; wills; extracts from parish registers and insurance policies.

        Mills , family , private bankers
        HILLINGDON HOUSE ESTATE
        GB 0074 ACC/0503 · Collection · 1623-1914

        Records relating to the Hillingdon House Estate, including title deeds for Hillingdon House and estates, and for additional lands added to the estate by various owners including John Chetwynd, the Marchioness of Rockingham, Josias Porcher and R.H. Cox. Documents include maps and plans; extracts from court rolls; wills; abstracts of title; lease and releases; fines; legal case proceedings; bonds; covenants and marriage settlements.

        Various.