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- 1810-1966 (Produção)
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106 production units.
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For two hundred years from the appointment of Benjamin Cole as the first Government Broker in July 1786, the senior partner of the firm of Mullens and Company, stockbrokers, acted as Government Stockbroker. The formal title assigned to the Senior Partner of the firm was "Broker to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt". During this period the firm was one of the leading City stockbrokers, enjoying close relations with the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange in relation to its activities in the gilt-edged market. It also had a number of private clients. Mullens and Company remained a partnership except for a brief period from 1949 when, for tax reasons, it converted into a private unlimited company in common with other Stock Exchange firms. In April 1986 Mullens and Company was taken over by the merchant bank SG Warburg, and ceased to exist.
Mullens and Company traded under a variety of names, 1786-1810, and under the following names from 1810 onwards:
-Templeman, Cole and Ede, 1810-1811;
- Cole Jnr and Child, 1811-1813;
- Templeman, Cole Jnr and Child, 1813-1820;
- Cole and Child, 1820-1825;
- Templeman, Cole and Child, 1825-1829;
- Cole and Child, 1829-1831;
- Cole and Mullens, 1831-1843;
- Mullens and Marshall, 1843-1846;
- Mullens, Marshall and Daniell, 1846-1877;
- Mullens, Marshall and Company, 1877-1921;
- Mullens, Marshall, Steer Lawford and Company, 1921-1935;
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Mullens and Company, 1935-1986.
From 1810 the offices of the firm were as follows: 29 Princes Street, Lothbury, 1810-1815; 51 Lothbury, 1815-1834; 53 Lothbury, 1834-1836; 45 Lothbury, 1836-1837; 3 Lombard Street, 1837-1868; 4 Lombard Street, 1869-1906; 13 George Street, 1906-1952; 13 Moorgate, 1952; 35 Moorgate, 1952; 15 Moorgate, 1952-1986.
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GB 0074 CLC/B/165 1810-1966 Collection 106 production units. Mullens and Co , stockbrokers and H.M. Government brokers
For two hundred years from the appointment of Benjamin Cole as the first Government Broker in July 1786, the senior partner of the firm of Mullens and Company, stockbrokers, acted as Government Stockbroker. The formal title assigned to the Senior Partner of the firm was "Broker to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt". During this period the firm was one of the leading City stockbrokers, enjoying close relations with the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange in relation to its activities in the gilt-edged market. It also had a number of private clients. Mullens and Company remained a partnership except for a brief period from 1949 when, for tax reasons, it converted into a private unlimited company in common with other Stock Exchange firms. In April 1986 Mullens and Company was taken over by the merchant bank SG Warburg, and ceased to exist.
Mullens and Company traded under a variety of names, 1786-1810, and under the following names from 1810 onwards:
-Templeman, Cole and Ede, 1810-1811;
- Cole Jnr and Child, 1811-1813;
- Templeman, Cole Jnr and Child, 1813-1820;
- Cole and Child, 1820-1825;
- Templeman, Cole and Child, 1825-1829;
- Cole and Child, 1829-1831;
- Cole and Mullens, 1831-1843;
- Mullens and Marshall, 1843-1846;
- Mullens, Marshall and Daniell, 1846-1877;
- Mullens, Marshall and Company, 1877-1921;
- Mullens, Marshall, Steer Lawford and Company, 1921-1935;
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Mullens and Company, 1935-1986.
From 1810 the offices of the firm were as follows: 29 Princes Street, Lothbury, 1810-1815; 51 Lothbury, 1815-1834; 53 Lothbury, 1834-1836; 45 Lothbury, 1836-1837; 3 Lombard Street, 1837-1868; 4 Lombard Street, 1869-1906; 13 George Street, 1906-1952; 13 Moorgate, 1952; 35 Moorgate, 1952; 15 Moorgate, 1952-1986.
The Mullens and Co archives were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Warburg Securities, per Roger Daniell, a former Mullens partner, in 1989 and 1991. The Guildhall Manuscripts Section accepted few records later than 1950. They were catalogued in circa 1993. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
Records of Mullens and Company, stockbrokers and H M Government brokers, comprising: partnership deeds and related papers, 1862-1964; papers re the formation of an unlimited company, 1946-1965; operational records, c 1850-1954; financial records, 1815-1966; records relating to staff, 1916-48; property records, 1934-1951, and family papers, 1706-1922.
Information on access to records less than 40 years old is available from a member of staff.
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 depositor.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Further information about Mullens and Company can be found in the Bank of England archives.
For further details of the history of Mullens & Co see David Wainwright, Government Broker: the story of an office and of Mullens & Co (Matham Publishing, 1990).
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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The Mullens and Co archives were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Warburg Securities, per Roger Daniell, a former Mullens partner, in 1989 and 1991. The Guildhall Manuscripts Section accepted few records later than 1950. They were catalogued in circa 1993. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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Records of Mullens and Company, stockbrokers and H M Government brokers, comprising: partnership deeds and related papers, 1862-1964; papers re the formation of an unlimited company, 1946-1965; operational records, c 1850-1954; financial records, 1815-1966; records relating to staff, 1916-48; property records, 1934-1951, and family papers, 1706-1922.
Information on access to records less than 40 years old is available from a member of staff.
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Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
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Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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- inglês
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- latim
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Further information about Mullens and Company can be found in the Bank of England archives.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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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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- inglês