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Catalogue reference: J 32

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J 32

Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1910 until 1932. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited...

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J 32

Title
Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Miscellaneous Books
Date

1850-1909

Description

Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1910 until 1932. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (1910-1932) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Charles Burney (1877-1909), Master Edmund Boyle Church (1864-1876) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master George Whiting (1852-1863).

Many of the books arise from business in connection with the making of court orders. Other material includes accounts in suits, registers of creditors' claims and company winding-up matters.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Books have been broadly arranged according to the type of information they contain. They are listed mostly by the initial letter of the action concerned.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

C 333

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Court of Chancery, 1875-1875
  • Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-1875
Physical description

320 volume(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Immediate source of acquisition

in 1914 Robert Thesiger Watkin- Williams, 1867-1953

Subjects
Topics
Debt
Selection and destruction information

The documents, which originated with Master Watkin-Williams' predecessors, are the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9640/

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