DAVISON, NEWMAN AND CO

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/066
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DAVISON, NEWMAN AND CO
Date(s)	: 1753-1897
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 48 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Davison, Newman and Co | grocers and importers of West-Indian produce

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The firm of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, was founded in 1650. It was sitauted "at the sign of the three sugar loaves and crown", 14 Creechurch Lane, Leadenhall Street, London EC3. It was bought up by the West-Indian Produce Association Limited, on 1 January 1911. The registered trade name of the present firm retains the name of the original business.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, comprising mostly accounts, correspondence, legal papers and papers relating to land in Jamaica.

Access & 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:

Available for general access.

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:

The records were deposited by the Company and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1954. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

A history of the Company by Owen Rutter, A brief history of the firm of Messrs Davison, Newman and Company: now incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited, 1938, is available in the Printed Books Section of the Guildhall Library.

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:
November 2010 to January 2011.