Devon Record Office: PENNY and HARWARD, BAMPTON

The collection includes

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION records;

CLIENTS' PAPERS;

Local authority records concerning

BAMPTON PARISH

(Parochial Committee and Poor Law Guardians)

And

BAMPTON Urban District Council;

EDUCATION records

(Bampton and East Anstey School Managers and Trustees of the Bampton Church of England School)

Records of

CLUB AND SOCIETIES including

Bampton Conservative Association;

Tiverton Constitutional Club;

Bampton Nursing Association;

Bampton Co-op. Society and

Bampton Committee of The Belgian Refugee Fund

And INSURANCE documents.

This list is a summary list and, as such, is intended to give a broad indication of the contents of individual bundles and files rather than a complete, accurate description of each document it is arranged under broad subject headings, and, within those headings, no attempt has been made to create an organised chronological or subject arrangement.

These papers, deposited by Messrs Penny and Harward, solicitors, were removed from a linhay in Bampton in 1962. They are the papers of a firm of Bampton solicitors, comprising various members of the Row and Densham families, pre-eminent amongst whom is Edgar P. Row who, throughout the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th, was a constant and central figure in many aspects of local government and activities. Documents relating to the Bampton Sanitary Board, the Bampton Parochial Committee (1044B-1/A/P/3), various local School Boards, the Bampton Poor Law Guardians (1044B-1/A/P/1-2) and the Bampton Urban District Council have all come to us by way of the secretaryship or clerkship of Edgar and Thomas Row, and their influence extended to many other fields of local life such as the Conservative Association, the Co-operative Society and the Nursing Association. In conjunction with an interesting set of papers from local business and tradesmen who were clients of the solicitors, (1044B-1/M/1-23) these combine to give a comprehensive picture of the locality.