IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 NORRIS OAKLEY
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: Norris Oakley Bros, Stockbrokers
Date(s): c1880s-1940
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 35 boxes
Name of creator(s): Norris Oakley Bros
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
T H Oakley was a stockbroker of 2 Copthall Buildings, London, c 1885. The Company became known as Oakley Norris Bros (same address), c 1888-1966; then Norris Oakley Richardson and Glover. John Kenneth Ritchie, third Baron Ritchie of Dundee (1902-1975) and chairman of the London Stock Exchange, 1959-1965, was a senior partner of the company.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Ledgers of London stockbrokers Oakley Norris Bros, 1880s-1940.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unsorted
Conditions governing access:
Closed
Conditions governing reproduction:
No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Formerly held in a shed on a farm in Surrey and transferred to LSE Archives in 1981. Some of the material was held for a time by Guildhall Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by C E Smallwood via Guildhall Library in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.
Rules or conventions: 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.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2008