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Undergraduate study, Queen Mary, University of London
Ref No (click to see in context)QM/1/2/9
TitleFundraising in East London Docks
LevelFile
Date1886
Extent1 file
DescriptionLetters relating to fundraising for the People's Palace. Includes letters from S. Field and J.M. Ashton, both of the East and West India Dock Company, to the Beaumont Trust about the collection of subscriptions from employees at the Docks.

Also includes correspondence between Edmund Hay Currie and Colonel Taylor of the Dock Company, regarding Taylor's objection to the Beaumont Trust continuing to use his employee Brownlow as Honorary Secretary of the Beaumont Trust.
Access StatusOpen
Persons
CodePerson or Corporate Body Name
DS/UK/1249Currie; Sir; Edmund Hay (1834-1913); Vice Chairman of the School Board for London (1873-76); Chairman of the London Hospital Medical College (1876-79); Chairman of the Beaumont Trustees (1882-91).
DS/UK/1248Brownlow; Arthur (fl. 1885); Honourary Secretary of the Beaumont Trust
DS/UK/1260Field; S. (fl. 1886); Employee of the East and West India Dock Company
DS/UK/1261Ashton; J. M. (fl. 1886); Employee of the East and West India Dock Company.
DS/UK/1262du Plat Taylor; John Lowther (1829-1904); Colonel; Founder of the Army Postal Corps and the Post Office Rifles.
DS/UK/62People's Palace; 1887-1954
DS/UK/1377Beaumont Trust; 1882-
DS/UK/1387East and West India Dock Company; 1838-c.1909