Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/206 - SPICER AND PEGLER

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 CLC/B/206

Title

SPICER AND PEGLER

Date(s)

  • 1902-1972 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

3 production units.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

This was a chartered accountancy partnership established in 1902 between E.E. Spicer and E.C. Pegler. Their address was 60 Watling Street. The firm became influential in the training of young accountants and published many standard textbooks. Following amalgamations with other firms in the 1970s and 1980s, Spicer and Oppenheim (as the firm was then known) amalgamated with Touche Ross and Company in 1990. Touche Ross and Company became Deloitte and Touche in 1996.

Archival history

Further records are believed to have been destroyed in 1964.

GB 0074 CLC/B/206 1902-1972 Collection 3 production units. Spicer and Pegler , chartered accountants

This was a chartered accountancy partnership established in 1902 between E.E. Spicer and E.C. Pegler. Their address was 60 Watling Street. The firm became influential in the training of young accountants and published many standard textbooks. Following amalgamations with other firms in the 1970s and 1980s, Spicer and Oppenheim (as the firm was then known) amalgamated with Touche Ross and Company in 1990. Touche Ross and Company became Deloitte and Touche in 1996.

Further records are believed to have been destroyed in 1964.

They were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the former partners of Spicer and Pegler, via Deloitte & Touche, in 1996 and catalogued shortly afterwards by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Spicer and Pegler, chartered accountants, comprising private letterbooks 1902-12 and 1972, and photographs of Ernest Pegler, 1936.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

English

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

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

They were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the former partners of Spicer and Pegler, via Deloitte & Touche, in 1996 and catalogued shortly afterwards by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of Spicer and Pegler, chartered accountants, comprising private letterbooks 1902-12 and 1972, and photographs of Ernest Pegler, 1936.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

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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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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Description control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

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.

Status

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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