Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Papers

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Title: Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Papers
Description:

Papers, the bulk of which were transferred from the chambers of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1912 until his death in 1935. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale (1912-1935) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Henry Templar Prior (1907-1911), Master William Binns Smith (1874-1906) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master Alfred Hall (1852-1873).

These papers relate mainly to actions concerning the administration of estates and include a number of pedigrees. There are also papers arising from company winding-up proceedings.

Date: 1850-1938
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 339
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Court of Chancery, 1875

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-

Physical description: 178 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Arthur Risdale, 1912-1935

Selection and destruction information: The documents mostly originated with Master Risdale's predecessors, and 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 Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194.

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