IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/443
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DENT FAMILY
Date(s): 1850-1969
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 9 production units.
Name of creator(s): Dent | family | watchmakers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Under the terms of the will of Edward John Dent (1790-1853), the business of E. Dent and Company Limited, watchmakers (founded in 1840) was divided between his stepsons with Richard Edward Dent, formerly Rippon, inheriting the business in Cockspur Street. On his death in 1856 the business passed to his wife Marianna Frederica Dent and became independent, trading as M.F. Dent until 1920, when it was acquired by E. Dent and Company Limited. Between 1856 and 1920 the business was run by various members of the Dent family.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Dent family, watchmakers, comprising legal papers, deeds and related papers mainly relating to family estates and property in Charing Cross and Worthing.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These records were deposited at Guildhall Library in July 1989 by Bolton and Lowe, solicitors, per the British Records Association. They were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For further details of the Dent family and business, see E Dent and Company (CLC/B/073).
Publication note:
See also Edward John Dent and his successors by Vaudrey Mercer, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 1977.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.