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Series
Charity Commission: Assistant Commissioners' Confidential Reports
Catalogue reference: CHAR 15
What's it about?
CHAR 15
This series contains confidential reports prepared for the Board between 1880 and 1892, 1896 & 1907 on endowed schools in the London area, charities administered by the Corporation of Trinity House and charities of the City and County of the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Assistant Commissioners' Confidential Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1880-1907
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential reports prepared for the Board between 1880 and 1892, 1896 & 1907 on endowed schools in the London area, charities administered by the Corporation of Trinity House and charities of the City and County of the City of Norwich.
The reports add to information in the original reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities which were published 1817-1843 and differ from the published Assistant Commissioner reports (1893-1914) in the contentious nature of their subject matter.
CHAR 15/1 is indexed at the front in manuscript and its cover is erroneously titled Charity Commission Annual Reports, 1886 - 1892
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Charity Commission, Assistant Commissioners, 1887-1887
- Charity Commission, Inspectors, 1853-1887
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2000 Charity Commission
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Charities
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1880-1892
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected to complete the coverage of 19th century charity history already provided by published reports, and by the 'unreported volumes' in CHAR 8
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Charitable Trusts Act 1853, Endowed Schools Act 1869 and the Municipal corporations Act 1883 empowered the Board of Charity Commissioners to appoint inspectors (known as assistant commissioners after 1887) to inquire into the affairs of endowed charities and schools, and to provide reports on their findings.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15554/
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Charity Commission: Assistant Commissioners' Confidential Reports
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