CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS FROM THE OFFICE OF PINDER SIMPSON AND JOHN SIMPSON, SOLICITORS...

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CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS FROM THE OFFICE OF PINDER SIMPSON AND JOHN SIMPSON, SOLICITORS OF BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON, RELATING TO THE TILER FAMILY AND THE FLETCHER FAMILY

1590 AND 1787-1856

This accumulation consists of papers from the office of Pinder Simpson (1773-1847), and John Simpson, solicitors of Burlington Street, Piccadilly, London. Pinder Simpson was the great-great-grandfather of Colonel Guy de Gaury. 3677/1/50 shows that by 1853 John Simpson was based at 29 Saville Row. The relationship between Pinder and John Simpson is not known.

The majority of the papers consists of letters written to Reynier Tiler, a steward in the household of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, third Duke of Portland and the dispersed members of his family. Reynier Tiler lived apart from his wife and Ann Tiler, their daughter, sought to conceal this from those who employed her as a governess. Simpson, who was a close friend and legal adviser of the family, acted as an intermediary for them, forwarding post and financial allowances from Ann to her mother in Lincs, and after Reynier's death in 1829 continuing the allowances due to Ann's brother, Henry. After Ann's marriage to Colonel Dalmar in c.1834, her husband also placed his affairs in Simpson's hands. It therefore seems probable that Simpson acquired the letters either upon Ann's death, or upon that of her husband.

The deposit also includes letters from the Fletcher family, who Tiler may have met through his connection with the Duke of Portland. Little is known about the Fletchers, but that they were well known to the Simpson family is indicated by the fact that a Mrs Fletcher was sponsor to Georgiana Simpson at her baptism at St. George's Hanover Square on 25 June 1800. The presence in the deposit of two later letters relating to the Fletchers' legal affairs indicates that they also made use of Simpson's office.

The papers passed to Colonel Guy de Gaury from his great aunt Georgiana Dewdney (born 11 May 1800), the daughter of Pinder Simpson. She married James Dewdney, but her legal affairs were managed by her father and brother, the latter of whom was de Gaury's great grandfather. During his lifetime, Colonel de Gaury also deposited other records with Surrey Record Office, which had passed to him from Georgiana Dewdney. These included deeds relating to various properties in Limpsfield, Surrey, and Worth, West Sussex (967/-, 18/- and 3141). He died in 1983, and bequeathed to Surrey Record Office two additional documents which may be connected with the Dewdney family (ref 3141).

The present accumulation has been found to contain a deed of 1590 relating to land at Limpsfield, Surrey. This has been placed at the end of the present list (3677/5/1). Richard Killick of Nutfield appears as a party in both this deed and in a deed of 1580, deposited by Colonel de Gaury with Surrey Record Office in 1973 and held as 917/1/1.

The deposit originally consisted of eleven bundles of letters, but although the bundles generally corresponded to the recipients of the letters, the order of many of the bundles had been disturbed. Letters written by Lord Essex to Ann Tiler (3677/3/22-138) had been numbered in chronological order by Ann Tiler, and these numbers have been retained in square brackets in the list. It is possible that Ann Tiler was also responsible for collecting together the correspondence received by her parents, for she can be seen to have annotated an envelope containing letters addressed to her father.

The disruption of the original order of so much of the accumulation determined the decision to sort the papers into five groups, corresponding to the three members of the Tiler family who received the letters, with a miscellaneous group of papers from the office of Pinder Simpson and a fifth section for the stray deed. Draft replies to letters appear with the letter they were intended to answer. Within these groups the letters have been arranged in chronological order within sub-groups according to correspondents or subjects.

Introductions to each group are placed at the appropriate places throughout the list.

3677/1/ LETTERS RECEIVED BY REYNIER TILER, WITH ADDITIONAL PAPERS OF JOSEPH FLETCHER JUNIOR, 1787-1853

1-20 Letters from Richard Paul Jodrell MP (1745-1831), 1787-1796

21-50 Letters from the Fletcher family, 1799-1853

51 Letter from James Harrison, 1815

52 Letter from Sarah Parsons, 1817

53-57 Letters relating to Henry Tiler, 1817-1833

58-59 Miscellaneous, early 19th cent

3677/2/1-24 LETTERS FROM ANN TILER TO MRS TILER, 1814-1824

3677/3/ LETTERS RECEIVED BY ANN TILER 1814-1827

1-21 Bills and receipts of tradesmen, 1814-1824

22-138 Correspondence with George Capel Coningsby (1727-1838), fifth Earl of Essex, 1821-1824

139-156 Letters from the Raikes family, 1813-1823

157-200 Correspondence relating to Reynier Tiler and the parish of St Marylebone, London, 1825-1827

3677/4/1-3 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS FROM THE OFFICE OF PINDER SIMPSON, 1855-1856

3677/5/1 BACKELLERS, LIMPSFIELD: DEED, 1590

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Deposited by the executors of Colonel Gerald de Gaury in July 1989.