IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP 80
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: BARTLETT, Hardington Arthur (d 1920)
Date(s): 1907-2000
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Bartlett | Hardington Arthur | d 1920 | engineer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Son of Herbert Henry Bartlett, partner in the firm of Perry and Co, builders and contractors; possibly educated under Henry Robinson, Professor of Civil Engineering, King's College London, 1886; worked as engineer on Bakerloo Line, London, on the harbour of San Sebastian, Spain, and on contracts to maintain British military camps during World War One; drowned on English Channel ferry crossing, 1920.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection comprises copies of printed material, 1907-1984, including history of Perry and Co, builders and contractors, with list of completed building projects, photographs of founders, and notes on the company's projects including St Thomas's Hospital, London, Tower Bridge and numerous Underground railway stations including Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus, [1907]; copy of article on the Perry & Co employee, Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, by Sir Basil Bartlett, printed in David Jeremy ed., Dictionary of business biography (London, 1984); manuscript pedigree describing the relationship between the Robinson and Bartlett families, to whom the donor was related, [2000].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description on-line and due to be published in hard copy.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
Papers bequethed to King's College London by Irene Theodore Bartlett, granddaughter of Hardington Arthur Bartlett, [2000].
Immediate source of acquisition:
King's College London Development Office.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2001