Records of P & O Banking Corporation including regulations and legal agreements. These contain no information on individual staff except signatures (apart from R Douglas Butterfield's file).
P & O Banking Corporation LimitedPapers of banker David Francis Park including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes and other material relating to banks and banking.
Park , David Francis , fl 1857-1885 , bankerAssignment of debt and associated releases regarding the banking partnership of Sir John Perring, Benjamin Shaw and Stephen Nicholson Barber, 1829-1839.
Perring, Shaw and Barber , banking partnershipLetter from William Pitt (Pitt the younger) of Downing Street, [London] to Lord [Auckland], 30 Nov 1796. Relating to the Loyalty Loan and to the promise of its success. A postscript states: 'The Companies are I think nearly secure as far as towards four Millions, and may yield more. Many of the Leading Bankers and monied men are very eager, and one single House (not a Banker) has sent me a list of 350,000£'.
Autograph, with signature.
Pitt , William , 1759-1806 , Prime Minister, known as Pitt the youngerThis series relates to the postal draft system from its inception in 1912 until it ceased in 1969 with the introduction of Girobank services. It comprises correspondence between the Post Office and government departments, committee minutes, reports, and specimens of postal drafts.
No further information availablePapers and correspondence of George Rae, banker, relating to various banking topics including the Companies Act of 1879, and the Institute of Bankers.
Rae , George , fl 1865-1887 , bankerThis collection comprises the following records of the parish of Barking:
Vestry minute books, 1694-1926 (BD74/A)
Baptism registers, 1558-1812 (BD74/B/1)
Burial registers, 1656-1812 (BD74/B/2)
Minute books of the Overseers' of Barking Parish, 1786-1927 (BD74/C/1)
Overseers' account books, 1765-1798 (BD74/C/2)
Overseers' rate books, 1739-1836 (BD74/C/3)
Valuation lists of the Overseers' of Barking, 1784-1830 (BD74/C/4)
Disbursement books of the Overseers' of Barking, 1819-1820 (BD74/C/5)
Receipt and payment books of the Overseers' of Barking, 1868-1887 (BD74/C/6)
Churchwardens' account books, 1777-1823 (BD74/D/1)
Churchwardens' rate books, 1738-1866 (BD74/D/2)
Surveyors' account books, 1830 (BD74/E/1)
Surveyors' rate books, 1828-1844 (BD74/E/2)
Rate collection books for the Barking Town Ward, 1747-1772 (BD74/F/1/1)
Rate collection books for the Ilford Ward, 1728-1829 (BD74/F/1/2)
Rate collection books for the Chadwell Ward, 1744-1778 (BD74/F/1/3)
Rate collection books for the Ripple Ward, 1744-1779 (BD74/F/1/4)
Poor rate books for Barking, 1837-1916 (BD74/F/2)
Valuation lists for Barking, 1842-1929 (BD74/F/3)
Rental books, 1763-1778 (BD74/G)
Notice books, 1769-1839 (BD74/H)
Apprenticeship books, 1818-1844 (BD74/J)
Land terrier books, 1829-1840 (BD74/K)
Minute book of the Directors' of the Poor for the Parish of Barking, 1855-1893 (BD74/L/1)
Report by the Wharf Keeper of Barking Town Quay, 1893 (BD74/L/2)
Minute book of the Barking and District Savings Bank, 1818-1843 (BD74/M/1)
Declarations and new depositors' books of the Barking and District Savings Bank, 1824-1852 (BD74/M/2)
Parish of BarkingRoger Cunliffe, Sons and Company records comprising partnership agreements 1835 and 1851-83.
Roger Cunliffe, Sons and Co , merchants and discount bankersThis POST class comprises papers and copy minutes of the Post Office Board (1934-[1992]), the Post Office Management Board (1970-1979), and the Posts and Girobank Board (1980-1981). The signed minutes of the main Post Office Board are included, 1969-1972.
This POST class also includes papers of subsidiary boards and committees established by the board, or whose papers and minutes were received by the Board. These include the Girobank Board, Parcels Business Board, Post Office Finance Limited Board, the Post Office Board Emergency Committee, the National Joint Policy Council, the Managing Director's Committee: Posts, the Chairman's Executive Committee, the Post Office Executive Committee, the Girobank and Counters Committee, the Audit Committee, the Counters Executive Committee, the Major Projects Expenditure Committee, the Royal Mail Executive Committee, the Letters Management Committee, the Corporate Identitity and design Committee, the Counter Automation Management Committee and ad hoc committees established by the board.
No further information availableRecords of the Royal Standard Benefit Society, including Committee and Trustees meeting minutes; notices of forthcoming meetings; registers of members; example of a certificate of the freedom of the Society; and financial accounts.
Royal Standard Benefit SocietyThis series comprises reports and papers on the establishment and operation of, and facilities and services provided by The Post Office Savings Bank. This series comprises those records that did not form part of the National Savings Department holdings in 1969.
No further information availableRecords of discount bankers Smith St Aubyn and Company Limited, comprising ledgers and general ledgers 1891-1954, ledgers of partners' and trustees' accounts 1930-1939, trade acceptors ledgers 1927-1955, cash books 1891-1960, daybooks and rough daybooks 1891-1958, journals 1946-50, loans books and ledgers 1932-1952, private accounts loans and interest books 1931-1952, bills books 1891-1892 and 1933-1956, business and appointments diaries 1891-1959.
Smith St Aubyn and Co Ltd , discount bankersMinute books of the Society of Apothecaries, 1629-1675.
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of LondonMemorandum book including copy letters to the Court of the East India Company; bye-laws and resolutions of the Society; and printed East India Company notices.
Society of East India Commanders East India CompanyRecords of the Society of Licensed Victuallers comprising rules and bye-laws, correspondence, plans and property records, and related papers.
Society of Licensed VictuallersRecords of Standard Bank Ghana Limited including inward and outward letter books.
Standard Bank Ghana Limited , Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of Nigeria Limited including inward and outward letters between Nigeria Head Office, Lagos and Director's Office (London).
Standard Bank of Nigeria , Standard Bank Limited xx First Bank of Nigeria - Standard BankRecords of Standard Bank of Sierra Leone Limited including correspondence between Sierra Leone Head Office, Freetown and Director's Office (London).
Standard Bank of Sierra Leone Limited , Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including balance sheets, ledgers, profit and loss accounts, circulars, records relating to taxation, securities and investment records, head office and branch records, statistics, staff instructions, investment and subject files.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited covering the main administrative functions and departments of the bank. Records include extensive series of letter books and circulars for the Secretary's, General Manager's and Chairman's departments, as well as general correspondence, minutes, notes and files concerning financial and other organisational matters for these departments.
Records from other departments include letter books and memoranda for the Advances Department, records submitted to the Agency Department from Hamburg and New York Agencies, reports and financial assessments by the Inspection Department, records on the merger with the Chartered Bank from the Organisational and Methods Department and correspondence and reports from the East Africa Department.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including records relating to the foundation of the bank, including the memorandum and articles of association; records of the London Board of Directors and Boards based in South Africa, often providing details of advances and general operations; the annual reports and minutes from the Annual General meetings and the signed seal registers.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including printed published material, including pamphlets and newsletters, research files for J A Henry's published history of the bank, unpublished notes and newspaper cuttings.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including printed cases in which the bank was involved at appeal level.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including advertisements book listing advertisements placed in publications and costs incurred and volume of advertising pulls containing clippings of advertisements and lists of publications they were placed in.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including records purely created and kept by branches of the bank. These include inward and outward letter books and other branch correspondence, plans of branches, customer documents and accounting notes.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited reflecting the daily operations, transactions and business of the bank. Includes ledgers and papers relating to customer accounts, operational papers, ledgers of government accounts and charitable accounts and records relating to bullion purchases.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including photographs (Africa and Europe), plans, correspondence, deeds, and other administrative records concerning the bank's premises and properties.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including one register of Directors shareholdings.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including information on individual bank staff, hierarchy structures, staff rules and procedures and leisure activities for staff.
They also include an incomplete set of staff registers (dating from 1891 to 1894 for Cape Town branch only, and 1913 for a general list of branches and staff) and annual assessments of staff performance, rules and handbooks for staff and office procedures, photographs of individual members of staff, correspondence on senior appointments, a staff memorial for the Second World War and documents relating to two London-based staff leisure societies; The African Banks Athletic Club and the Springbok Musical and Dramatic Society. Sadly, the collection does not retain records of leisure societies and activities for staff based abroad.
Standard Bank of South Africa xx Standard Bank of British South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including the first Memorandum and Articles of Association and Reports and Accounts for 1969
Standard Bank of South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank of British South Africa LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including Code of Employment Practice.
Standard Bank of South Africa Limited xx Standard Bank of British South Africa LimitedRecords of Standard Bank of West Africa Limited including the Annual Report for 1973.
Standard Bank of West Africa LimitedMainly records of predecessor companies of Standard Chartered Bank, including African Banking Corporation; Bank of British West Africa; Bank of Nigeria; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Eastern Bank Limited; E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited and related companies, London and South African Bank; P & O Banking Corporation Limited; Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited (together with Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited)
The papers include foundation papers; minutes and agendas (except signed Board and Committee minutes which are retained by the bank); annual reports and accounts; financial and taxation records; papers relating to branches and agencies; agreements; papers relating to shareholders and investments; correspondence (including a large series of letterbooks for Standard Bank of South Africa); statistics; photographs; publicity material; administrative records and original banknotes and cheques.
Various.Records of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including Corporate Development Department correspondence, memos, draft agreements, Wallace Brothers balance sheets and company structures concerning acquisition of Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited.
Records of Business Archives Council survey of historical records of the bank and predecessors including lists correspondence and records on premises and historical records held.
Standard Chartered Bank Limited xx Standard Chartered Banking Group Limited xx Standard Chartered plcRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including the articles and memorandum of assocation from 1975 and the published annual reports from 1971-1988.
Standard Chartered Bank Limited xx Standard Chartered Banking Group Limited xx Standard Chartered plcRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including many items donated by former employees and members of the Standard Chartered Pensioners' Association. They relate to elements of historical interest from both Standard and Chartered Banks prior to merger and after merger.
There is also a series of photographs of places which were deposited by the bank in 2013.
Standard Chartered Bank Limited xx Standard Chartered Banking Group Limited xx Standard Chartered plcRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including correspondence relating to Standard Bank of South Africa Limited publicity and Business Guides which include information such as geography, climate, population, language, natural resources, infrastructure, communications, customs duties, exchange import and export, taxation and the banking services offered by Standard Chartered Bank.
Standard Chartered Bank Limited xx Standard Chartered Banking Group Limited xx Standard Chartered plcRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including 'StanChart magazine' Number 40.
Standard Chartered Bank Limited xx Standard Chartered Banking Group Limited xx Standard Chartered plcRecords of the London Stock Exchange dating from 1798. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.
Records include transcript of the deed of settlement of the Stock Exchange; minutes of the General Purposes Committee and various sub-committees; minutes of the Trustees and Managers; minutes of the Council; minutes of the Federation of Stock Exchanges Committees; administrative records including legal papers, notices, circulars, letters and correspondence, petitions, and reports; financial records including stamp duty books, journals and cash books; applications for membership; members lists and registers; clerks registers; membership statistics; applications for listing; reports regarding applications for permission to deal; papers regarding opposition to listing of certain companies; papers of the Department for the Administration of Defaulters' Estates; specifications, plans and elevations of Exchange buildings; photographs of senior staff from 1886-1900; and a short history (in manuscript) written in 1932.
The manuscript archives of the Exchange are immediately available for research with the exception of the "Applications for Listing" (CLC/B/004/MS18000 and CLC/B/004/MS18000A) which are available by appointment only.
London Stock ExchangePapers of Theresienstadt Bank, 1943-1944, comprise a savings book issued by the bank of the Jewish self-administration of Theresienstadt, which documents the savings accrued by a former inmate, Max Hirschfeld, from June 1943 to August 1944, payment for labour whilst in the camp. The colleciton also includes a letter dated 1 October 1945 from the same to the British military governor, Bielefeld, requesting funds for savings accrued by all surviving Theresienstadt inmates and is annotated cannot be allowed.
Jewish self administration, TheresienstadtManuscript volume containing transcripts of two tracts [by Sir Thomas Culpeper], [1673], mainly concerning banking and usury, entitled 'A familiar conference between three friends, Civis, Rusticus and Veridicus, concerning the late practice of the bankers and our present rate of interest for money', and 'The familiar conference continued between three friends concerning the present deadnesse of our markets'. These works were attributed to Culpeper by Halkett and Laing.
UnknownManuscript volume containing a paper entitled 'Proposal of a new bank', possibly by James Armour, c1699-1700, probably concerning the Scottish banking. James T Bell assigned this manuscript to 'J.A.', though there is now nothing on the document to justify this - part of the title seems to have been lost during binding repairs. 'J.A.' is probably James Armour (fl 1699-1721), who made proposals about the Bank of Scotland in 1722. He also published A proposal to supply the defect of money and relief to the poor (1696). This manuscript seems to be another version of the same proposal.
UnknownRecords of the Union Discount Company of London Limited, including photographs of offices and board members; notes on businesses and individuals with which the company had contact; agreement; and minutes of annual general meetings.
Union Discount Company of London LtdPapers of Wallace Brothers and Company Limited, East India Merchants, bankers and London agents, later known as Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited. Most of the records emanate from the core business of the Wallace Brothers partnership and its successors; but some emanate from the business of associated or subsidiary companies which were based in London. The latter include the records of Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited, who operated from the London office of Wallace Brothers between 1912 and 1968.
The archive does not hold the papers of Wallace Brothers' associated or subsidiary companies based overseas. No lists of the papers of these companies are held, and their whereabouts and accessibility are unknown. However the archives transferred to Guildhall from Wallace Brothers' London office include a considerable amount of information about the activities of many of these companies, including numerous copy and original documents sent to London by the companies concerned.
Besides papers created or received in the course of business, the Wallace Brothers archives include some memoirs of partners, directors or members of staff, and notes of research into the history of Wallace Brothers and its associates and subsidiaries.
The business papers date from 1862 to 1989, and relate to all aspects of Wallace Brothers' operations, although few banking records are held, and only formal business records survive from the period ca. 1966-1989.
Access is subject to a 45-year closure period (70 years in the case of personnel records). Annual reports and other published documents are not subject to closure.
The associated and subsidiary companies whose activities are known to be reflected in the Wallace Brothers archives are (provisionally) listed below, in the order in which the records will be arranged in the catalogue:
Records of Hermes Securities Limited including minutes of the board, directors reports and accounts and register of members and share register. Also includes minutes and directors reports and accounts for Hermes Credit Corporation Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40937 - MS40941).
Hermes Securities LimitedAn essay on paper credit and banking, c1758.
Wallace , Robert , 1697-1771 , chaplain and writerFamily tree of the Warburg family, Hamburg-Altona, published for the family including index and supplement, 1799-1953.
Warburg familyRecords of the Western Synagogue, Marylebone, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
Western Synagogue , 1761-1991Minutes of the Withington Friendly Burial Collecting Society.
Withington Friendly Burial Collecting SocietyLetter from John Woodrow of the Cannon Hotel, Cockspur Street to [Patrick] Colquhoun, 26 May 1818. Covering letter sending a copy of his pamphlet on savings banks and friendly societies.
Written in another hand and signed by Woodrow.
Woodrow , John , fl 1818-1821 , pamphleteer