WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOCKMAKERS
Date of Creation:
1503 - 1992
Reference Code:
CLC/L/CD
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Extent: | 216 production units | |
Classification: | LIVERY COMPANIES | |
Site Location: | Guildhall | |
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Creator: | Worshipful Company of Clockmakers | |
Copyright: | Depositor | |
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Access Restrictions: | These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions Not available for online ordering. Please see staff | |
Arrangement: |
As the archive is large and complex, and to assist the user, the catalogue has been arranged in sections, each with an archival classification code as follows:
CLC/L/CD/A Constitutional records CLC/L/CD/B Court records CLC/L/CD/C Membership records CLC/L/CD/D Financial records CLC/L/CD/E Trade records CLC/L/CD/F Clerk's records CLC/L/CD/G Charities and estates | |
Related Material: |
For Clockmakers' Company rough court minutes (1712-15) and Clockmakers' Company list of apprentice bindings (1716-19) see CLC/L/CL/B/002A/MS00660/001.
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM The printed works of the former Clockmakers' Library are held at the Printed Books Section of Guildhall Library. The Company has never had a hall, so its collection of clocks and watches, formerly held in a museum in Guildhall Library, now forms The Clockmakers' Museum located within the Science Museum in South Kensington. COLLECTIONS DEPOSITED BY CLOCKMAKERS' COMPANY The Clockmakers' Company has deposited the following collections of clockmaking-related organisations, businesses and individuals: ORGANISATIONS CLC/002 Antiquarian Horological Society (Ms 20575 only, rest deposited by the Society) CLC/039 British Horological Institute CLC/125 National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clockmakers BUSINESSES CLC/B/024: Birch and Gaydon Limited CLC/B/043: Charles Frodsham and Company CLC/B/057: Connell Family CLC/B/064: Daniel Desbois and Sons CLC/B/073: E. Dent and Company Limited (except MS23814-22 relating to Dent Family which were part of a British Records Association deposit) CLC/B/118: Hobson, Charles (clock restorer) CLC/B/138: Joseph Preston and Sons (clockmakers) CLC/B/141: Kullberg, Victor (watch and chronometer maker) LMA/4823: Lupton, C CLC/B/176: Parkinson and Frodsham LMA/4810: Rowley and Parkes (clockmakers) LMA/4824: Sills, Edwin Robert LMA/4811: Turner, William LMA/4812: Usher and Cole (chronometer and watchmakers) LMA/4813: Vulliamy family (clockmakers) CLC/B/223: William James Barnsdale and Son FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS LMA/4804: Arnold, John and John Roger (chronometer makers) LMA/4821: Atkins, Samuel Eliot (clockmaker) LMA/4829: Barnsdale Family LMA/4636: Daniels, George {watchmaker, member and a master of the Company) LMA/4807: Harrison, John and William (clockmakers} LMA/4806: Haswell, Archibald (watchmaker) LMA/4822: Jump Family (clockmakers) LMA/4808: Maskelyne, Nevil (astronomer) LMA/4809: Mercer, Vaudrey (clockmaking historian) LMA/4825: Thwaites, John LMA/4826: Upjohn, James UNCATALOGUED COLLECTIONS B22/012: Jarvis, Roland (clockmaker) B10/161: Bertele, Dr H. Von (clockmaking historian) Please see Business Guide for further details of records relating to clockmakers | |
Publication Notes: |
For further details of the printed and manuscript library of the Company, see John Bromley ed., "The Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers" (1977). For a history of the Company see "Some account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London" (1881) by S.E. Atkins and H.C. Overall. The story of John Harrison's endeavours, details of the timekeepers and watches and further available sources are given in Humphrey Quill's "John Harrison, the man who found longitude" (1966) and Dava Sobel, "Longitude, the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time" (1995). A number of other printed works are available on Harrison and longitude as part of the Clockmakers' Company Library, now deposited with the Printed Books Section of Guildhall Library.
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