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ALCHIN, WILLIAM TURNER


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/235

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ALCHIN, WILLIAM TURNER

Date(s): 1856

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 production units.

Name of creator(s): Alchin | William Turner | 1790-1865 | Guildhall Librarian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Turner Alchin was born in 1790 in Billingsgate. He practised as a solicitor while also pursuing antiquarian interests. In 1845 he was appointed librarian at Guildhall Library, a post he held until his death in 1865.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Transcripts of an extract from "St Paul's Liber" (folios 51-54), a survey of property in London belonging to St Paul's Cathedral, 1130.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Three items.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For the original item see CLC/313/B/001/MS25504. For more papers of William Alchin see COL/AC and COL/CN.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antiquaries | Historians | Social scientists
Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Transcription | Writing systems
Cathedrals x Religious buildings
Property

Personal names
Alchin | William Turner | 1790-1865 | Guildhall Librarian

Corporate names
St Paul's Cathedral | London

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe