• Reference
    W3968
  • Title
    Bundle of papers relating to the affairs of the Magniac family of Colworth
  • Date free text
    1882-1907
  • Production date
    From: 1882 To: 1907
  • Scope and Content
    including: Letter from C. Magniac to Samuel Whitbread III concerning the sudden discovery of the embezzlement of funds and securities from the partnership and asking Whitbread to help him with his contract to the Duke of Bedford, 15 September 1882, and related papers September to October 1882 Letters concerning the advance of £37500 to C. Magniac on the security of the Knotting Estate, 1882-1883. Papers concerning the law suit Whitbread versus Magniac concerning the mortgage of the Knotting estate, affairs of the late C. Magniac deceased, bankruptcy of H. Magniac (including letter about purchase of property by C. Magniac in 1882), and the financial affairs of the family, 1891-1893. Purchase of £14,700 Middlesbrough Town Land shares, 1893. Loan of £5000 to C.H. Magniac for two months, October 1892 (cancelled December 1892). Other investments of the Magniac family taken as securities for loans, 1893-1909, including loan guarantees 1893, and release by Samuel Whitbread to Claude Magniac, 1 July 1907
  • Level of description
    item