Collection GB 0074 ACC/0362 - HART, Harry (fl 1789-1842)

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 ACC/0362

Title

HART, Harry (fl 1789-1842)

Date(s)

  • 1789-1842 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

0.16 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

In 1801 Harry Hart, then living in Princes Street in the parish of Saint James Westminster and described as a Pastry Cook, took a lease of a house in Arabella Row Pimlico for £335 but in 1803 he had evidently retired from his occupation of pastry cook and was now described in deeds as "gentleman" while his brother Robert who lived or carried on business in the Strand continued work as pastry cook and confectioner. For the next 23 years Harry Hart, sometimes alone and sometimes with his brother, leased a number of small properties in various parts of London to people of various descriptions.

In 1807 however, Robert Salmon, of Woburn, Bedfordshire, invented a truss for the treatment of rupture and requiring capital to market his invention he took into partnership Harry Hart and John Ody, previously a dyer. Salmon died in 1821 and in 1825 Hart sold his interest in the partnership to Ody in return for an annuity of £250 payable for 12 years In 1813 Hart was living in Flask Lane in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square but in 1816 he had moved to Brixton Hill. Robert Hart married a Miss Norris.

Archival history

GB 0074 ACC/0362 1789-1842 Collection 0.16 linear metres Hart , Harry , fl 1789-1842 , gentleman, pastry cook and truss maker

In 1801 Harry Hart, then living in Princes Street in the parish of Saint James Westminster and described as a Pastry Cook, took a lease of a house in Arabella Row Pimlico for £335 but in 1803 he had evidently retired from his occupation of pastry cook and was now described in deeds as "gentleman" while his brother Robert who lived or carried on business in the Strand continued work as pastry cook and confectioner. For the next 23 years Harry Hart, sometimes alone and sometimes with his brother, leased a number of small properties in various parts of London to people of various descriptions.

In 1807 however, Robert Salmon, of Woburn, Bedfordshire, invented a truss for the treatment of rupture and requiring capital to market his invention he took into partnership Harry Hart and John Ody, previously a dyer. Salmon died in 1821 and in 1825 Hart sold his interest in the partnership to Ody in return for an annuity of £250 payable for 12 years In 1813 Hart was living in Flask Lane in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square but in 1816 he had moved to Brixton Hill. Robert Hart married a Miss Norris.

Deposited in 1950 by Colonel Collins, descendant of Harry Hart (Acc/0362).

Papers relating to Harry Hart and family, 1789-1842, including copies of the wills of Robert Norris, 1816, and of Ann Henwell Morris, 1820; letters of attorney and affidavits by James Maxwell of Kingston, Jamaica, in favour of Clara Maxwell of London, 1822; grants by royal letters patent to Robert Salmon, surveyor, his executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole benefits and profits of the invention of 'Mathematic principled safe and easy trusses of the Relief and Cure of Ruptures' for 14 years in Scotland only, 1807; deed of co-partnership in the patent and manufacture of the 'improved trusses', between Robert Salmon, John Ody of St Anne's Soho, gentleman, and Harry Hart of St George's Hanover Square, gentleman, 1810; assignment of partnership and effects in the business as manufacturers and traders in sale of patent trusses, Harry Hart to John Ody, 1825; leases and counterpart leases for property owned by Harry Hart in the parishes of Saint George's, Hanover Square; Saint Luke, Chelsea; Saint Mary, Lambeth; Saint Mary, Newington and Saint Anne, Westminster, 1789-1842.

ACC/0362-1: Legal records; ACC/0362-2: Business records; ACC/0262-3: Title deeds.

Available for general access.

Copyright rests with the City of London.

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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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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in 1950 by Colonel Collins, descendant of Harry Hart (Acc/0362).

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Papers relating to Harry Hart and family, 1789-1842, including copies of the wills of Robert Norris, 1816, and of Ann Henwell Morris, 1820; letters of attorney and affidavits by James Maxwell of Kingston, Jamaica, in favour of Clara Maxwell of London, 1822; grants by royal letters patent to Robert Salmon, surveyor, his executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole benefits and profits of the invention of 'Mathematic principled safe and easy trusses of the Relief and Cure of Ruptures' for 14 years in Scotland only, 1807; deed of co-partnership in the patent and manufacture of the 'improved trusses', between Robert Salmon, John Ody of St Anne's Soho, gentleman, and Harry Hart of St George's Hanover Square, gentleman, 1810; assignment of partnership and effects in the business as manufacturers and traders in sale of patent trusses, Harry Hart to John Ody, 1825; leases and counterpart leases for property owned by Harry Hart in the parishes of Saint George's, Hanover Square; Saint Luke, Chelsea; Saint Mary, Lambeth; Saint Mary, Newington and Saint Anne, Westminster, 1789-1842.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

ACC/0362-1: Legal records; ACC/0362-2: Business records; ACC/0262-3: Title deeds.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

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

Finding aids

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

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

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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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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