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The firm was founded in the late 18th century as Kent Claridge and Pearce and by 1802 was referred to as Kent Pearce and Kent. George Frederick Thynne joined the partnership of Charles Kent and William Pearce in the early 19th century, the firm being known as Pearce Kent and Thynne from 1826 and Pearce and Thynne from 1834. The business began at 5 Craig's Court, Charing Cross, later moving to 11 Great George Street, Westminster where it stayed until about 1900 when it moved to 9 Victoria Street, the premises it retained until its closure in the 1950s.
By 1850 the firm was in the sole charge of Frederick K. Thynne. His sons Frederick George, Edward Lewis and Guy Harry had all joined by the 1870s and the business was known as Thynne and Thynne from 1865.
The firm acted as land agents for many wealthy and/or noble clients throughout England and its archive has thus been split between the counties where it administered estates. The bulk of the Thynne and Thynne collection held at London Metropolitan Archives deals with the estates of the Legge family, Earls of Dartmouth, in particular the family properties in London and Kent, with some records for Olney, Buckinghamshire and papers for properties in Berkshire, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Sussex and the West Riding of Yorkshire. The third earl appointed Kent and Pearce as his Yorkshire land agents in 1804 and for his remaining properties soon after, and they had considerable autonomy over management of the estates from the time of the fifth earl, who succeeded in 1853.
Thynne and Thynne also had an extensive business in Dalston, Hackney. They acted for the Addington family, Viscounts Sidmouth, who owned estates in Devon, Staffordshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as well as in Dalston and Battersea. Besides this, the firm were responsible for the property of the White family which owned land in Dalston from the 17th century as well as an estate at Wethersfield, Essex. Another client with land in Dalston was James Graham, a Baron of the Exchequer in 1799.