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Catalogue description Papers of Benjamin Bond Cabbell of Cromer Hall
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| Reference: | MC 97 |
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| Title: | Papers of Benjamin Bond Cabbell of Cromer Hall |
| Description: |
The papers are listed in the following order: Estate papers, Cromer Hall Estate Estate papers, Norwich (Assembly Rooms) property Estate papers, London Properties Private papers, Bank Pass Books Private papers, Political Papers (few only) Private papers, Shrievalty Papers Private papers, Freemasonry Papers Charities, Benefactions etc., Norfolk Charities, Benefactions etc., Non-Norfolk Miscellaneous Printed ESTATE PAPERS, CROMER HALL ESTATE These are listed in the following order: Solicitors letters Wage lists Solicitors bills Rentals etc. Household, garden accounts, receipts etc. Cromer Cliff Protection East Norfolk Railway Sale particulars Miscellaneous Printed |
| Date: | 1753-1968 |
| Held by: | Norfolk Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 12 series |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Records Received by Norfolk Record Office on 26 March 1983 MS21778 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Benjamin Bond Cabbell was born in 1781. He was a barrister and was MP for St Albans 1846 and for Boston 1847-1857. He purchased the Cromer Hall Estate from Lady Listowel (daughter of Admiral Windham) in 1852 and was High Sheriff for Norfolk in 1854. A prominent freemason, he was Grand Master of Norfolk Province between 1854 and 1874. He was a noted patron of the arts and philanphropist, and was responsible for building the first lifeboat station in Cromer as well as making many other local and national benefactions. He died in 1875 aged 93 and was succeeded at Cromer Hall by his nephew John Cabbell who changed his name to Bond-Cabbell in the same year. John died in 1878 and was succeeded by his son Benjamin Bond Bond-Cabbell who died in 1892 leaving a widow and four children. |
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