Collection GB 0074 ACC/0163 - DRUCES AND ATTLEE {SOLICITORS}

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Reference code

GB 0074 ACC/0163

Title

DRUCES AND ATTLEE {SOLICITORS}

Date(s)

  • 1850 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

0.01 linear metres

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Charles Hayne Seale-Haynes, 1833-1903, was the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ashburton division of Devon. His will established a trust to found Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, near Newton Abbot, now a department of the University of Plymouth.

The Duke of Northumberland's River was an artificial river flowing into the Thames at Isleworth. It was built by Henry VII to serve the abbey at Syon with water to drive a mill at Twickenham and later another mill at Isleworth. By the 1900s the mills had closed and as having a privately run river in the county was proving a nuisance and an expense the Middlesex County Council bought it in 1930 under the Middlesex County Council Act 1930.

Archival history

GB 0074 ACC/0163 1850 Collection 0.01 linear metres Druces and Attlee , solicitors

Charles Hayne Seale-Haynes, 1833-1903, was the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ashburton division of Devon. His will established a trust to found Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, near Newton Abbot, now a department of the University of Plymouth.

The Duke of Northumberland's River was an artificial river flowing into the Thames at Isleworth. It was built by Henry VII to serve the abbey at Syon with water to drive a mill at Twickenham and later another mill at Isleworth. By the 1900s the mills had closed and as having a privately run river in the county was proving a nuisance and an expense the Middlesex County Council bought it in 1930 under the Middlesex County Council Act 1930.

Received in 1940.

Documents acquired by the solicitors during the course of their work, comprising plan of Isleworth and part of Twickenham, showing plots and plot numbers, some occupiers' names, roads, buildings, streams and bridges, 1850?; counsel's opinion regarding liability for flooding of Duke of Northumberland's river, 1903 and list of tenants, with rents and terms, of the Whitton estate of Charles Seale-Haynes M.P., 1903?

3 items

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Copyright rests with the City of London
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For further material received from Druces and Atlee see ACC/0140 and ACC/0164.
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. July to October 2009 Fees Rent Law Legal systems Civil law Legal liability Visual materials Plans Disasters Natural disasters Floods People People by roles Tenants Finance Druces and Attlee , solicitors Isleworth Middlesex Hounslow London England UK Western Europe Europe Twickenham Whitton Richmond upon Thames Disasters (by type)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received in 1940.

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Scope and content

Documents acquired by the solicitors during the course of their work, comprising plan of Isleworth and part of Twickenham, showing plots and plot numbers, some occupiers' names, roads, buildings, streams and bridges, 1850?; counsel's opinion regarding liability for flooding of Duke of Northumberland's river, 1903 and list of tenants, with rents and terms, of the Whitton estate of Charles Seale-Haynes M.P., 1903?

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3 items

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Available for general access

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Copyright rests with the City of London

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

For further material received from Druces and Atlee see ACC/0140 and ACC/0164.

Finding aids

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

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London Metropolitan Archives

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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.

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  • English

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