| Admin History | In September 1824 the Bank advanced £35,000 to Chambers & Son, bankers of New Bond Street. The security consisted of an estate at Chettle, Dorset, belonging to the elder Chambers which he mortgaged to the Bank. In addition, he assigned to the Bank a judgement for £25,000 which he had obtained against J Symmons, an old man living in London at Paddington House. Chambers & Son were declared bankrupt in November 1824. Correspondence, papers and legal documents in F12/34-37 involve Sir Peter Pole, who had agreed to purchase for £90,000 an estate in Hampshire belonging to Symmons. Trustees of the Duke of Wellington eventually purchased the estate in 1830-31 and the debt owing to the Bank was cleared. |