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LANE, Richard Stuart (fl 1847-1887)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/472

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LANE, Richard Stuart (fl 1847-1887)

Date(s): 1847-1887

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 14 production units.

Name of creator(s): Lane | Richard Stuart | fl 1847-1887 | merchant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Stuart Lane was a Baltic shipping agent and London-Baltic merchant of Lane, Hankey and Company, based at 251 Old Broad Street and 8 Chesham Place, SW.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Richard Stuart Lane, Baltic shipping agent and merchant, comprising: letter books 1858-68, note book on foreign clients 1856, private diaries 1875-82 and correspondence and accounts 1847-87.

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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also E/SL: Stuart Lane, Richard, for records relating to property owned by the Lane family in Grosvenor Square and Eaton Square, Westminster; Caterham; Croydon and Hove; and papers relating to a suit in Chancery, 1783 - 1920.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: Records prepared May to September 2011, with additions August 2012.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)
Personal archives | Archives
Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Shipping agents | Commercial agents | Business people | People by occupation | People

Personal names
Lane | Richard Stuart | fl 1847-1887 | merchant

Corporate names

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