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Hanby Holmes

Reference: D/HH 10 Catalogue Title: Hanby Holmes Area: Catalogue Category: Business and Industry Records (Solicitors) Description: Miscellaneous Activities: St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle

Covering Dates: early 19th century-1865

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Catalogue Description

St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle(see also D/HH 5/2/263-273)

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/HH 10/21/2

Extracts from the report made by the Commissioners for inquiring into Charities, concerning the history and endowments of St. John's Hospital, n.d. [early 19th century]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/3

Minutes of meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Barnard Castle, under the chairmanship of Thomas Wheldon, recommending Thomas Emmerson Headlam M.P. for the vacant Mastership of St. John's Hospital, 4 November 1847
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/4

Letter from William Watson to Thomas Wheldon concerning recent meeting of inhabitants of Barnard Castle relative to the Hospital, [November 1847]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/5

Letter from John Chipchase, Lathbury to Thomas Wheldon concerning St. John's Hospital, with copies of documents relating to it, 6 November 1847
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/6

Circular concerning St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle, with notes on its history, the proceedings in Attorney General v Lipscomb and resolutions at a meeting of 16 April 1863, n.d.
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/7-8

Copy of letter from George Brown to Henry Pease M.P. concerning St. John's Hospital, with a copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting of 18 April 1861, and covering letter from George Brown to J.D. Holmes, 21 April 1863
(2 papers)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/9

Letter from T.E. Headlam, 27 Ashley Place, London SW to J.D. Holmes concerning the state of the affairs of St. John's Hospital, 22 April 1863
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/10

Letter from W.W. and G. Watson, Barnard Castle concerning disputed ownership of Hospital property, 8 November 1865
(1 paper)

Ref: D/HH 10/21/l

18 June 1796 [c.1847] (1) Reverend William Lipscomb of Welbury, Yorks., Clerk, Master of the Hospital of St. John Baptist in Barnard Castle (2) Dorothy Lodge of Barnard Castle, spinster; Thomas Bass of Barnard Castle, maltster and brewer; Benjamin Bass of Barnard Castle, farmer Copy lease by (1) to (2), for a term of three lives of the mansion houses etc. belonging to the Hospital in Newgate Street, Barnard Castle and several parcels of land in and around Barnard Castle as specified Consideration: £141 Rent: £9 16s. 8d. p.a.
(1 file)



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