SLATTER SON AND MORE, SOLICITORS, OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Business and client records of the firm of Slatter Son and More, solicitors of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The main divisions of the collection are:

DR 165/1 - 35: Administrative records of the firm

DR 165/36 - 655: Clients' papers, alphabetically by client

DR 165/656 - 1229: Miscellaneous sale particulars

DR 165/1247 - 1241: Miscellaneous deeds and papers

<span class="wrapper"><p>DR 149: Deeds and papers relating to Stratford-upon-Avon and places in the immediate neighbourhood, from the offices of Slatter Son and More, 19th - 20th centuries</p> <p>DR 325: Business and client papers from the offices of Slatter Son and More, Stratford-upon-Avon, 15th - 20th centuries</p></span>

This firm was founded by Robert Hiorne Hobbes in 1828. In 1843 he took into partnership John Slatter, and they operated as Hobbes and Slatter until 1865 when the former's son, William Hobbes, joined the partnership to establish the firm of Hobbes Slatter and Hobbes. This partnership was dissolved in 1876 and two new firms set up. One consisted of Robert Hobbes and John Slatter and returned to the name Hobbes and Slatter. William Hobbes apparently set himself up independently but the following year, on the final breakup of the partnership between Hobbes senior and Slatter, he was joined by his father and Alexander Pearce to form the partnership, Hobbes Son and Pearce. On the death of Robert Hobbes this partnership was dissolved yet again and William Hobbes re-established himself with a new partner to form the firm Hobbes and Norbury. In the meantime John Slatter had set up in partnership with his son (Slatter and Son) and in 1879 they were joined by Frank Gibbs (Slatter Son and Gibbs). This partnership lasted until 1911 when the firm Slatter Son and Slatter was established. The Slatter partnerships were housed in the Warwick Road premises where Robert Hobbes had founded the practice. William Hobbes, when he left the firm in 1876, practised in Old Town and Ely Street but his firm's books were found on the Warwick Road premises, presumably because Slatter Son and Gibbs wound up the firm when William Hobbes died.