Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Papers

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Title: Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Papers
Description:

Papers 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).

These papers arise mainly from actions concerning the administration of the estates of deceased persons and from proceedings under the Companies Acts. They are listed mostly by the initial letter of the action concerned, and many of them relate to bills of costs, list of claims and final accounts.
Date: 1850-1900
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 334
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Court of Chancery, 1875

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-
Physical description: 21 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Robert Thesiger Watkin- Williams, 1867-1953
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 Scedules governing the disposal of Public records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194.

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