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Estate of George Matthey (1825-1913)

Catalogue reference: amsh/AMS5615

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This record is about the Estate of George Matthey (1825-1913) dating from [1853]-1929.

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Reference
amsh/AMS5615
Title
Estate of George Matthey (1825-1913)
Date
[1853]-1929
Related material

<p>For deeds and other papers regarding Matthey's estate at Eastbourne, [1851]-1913, see AMS 5580.</p>

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Former department reference
AMS 5615
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

Documents given by the Goldsmiths Company, Foster Lane, London EC2 (via BRA 1157) on 8 July (ACC 665)

Administrative / biographical background

George Matthey (1825-1913) was head of Johnson Matthey and Company, assayers and gold refiners, a member of Goldsmith's Company and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked for the French Government on the standard metre, and served as a juror at the trial of the pyx for 40 years. These are the papers accumulated by his solicitors, Prideaux and Sons, acting for Matthey's executors (Sir Walter Sherburne Prideaux, William Edward Gillett of Baileys, Shaw and Gillett and his wife Charlotte Ann Matthey) on the division of his estate following his death in 1913.

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Estate of George Matthey (1825-1913)