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PRO: BT31 2335/11387
(All
information
is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)
1877
Memorandum of Association:
Objects include:
a. 'to carry out a certain agreement
bearing date the 13th day of April, 1877, and made between Richard
Metcalfe of the one part, and Charles Edmund Wilson of the other
part...'
b. 'to carry on the business of an
hydropathic establishment at Grafenberg House, New Barnet, in the
County of Hertfordshire, in a manner similar to the mode in which
the same has been hitherto carried on by the said Richard Metcalfe,
or at any other place or places in England, and to do all things by
increasing the establishment or otherwise as may be most conducive
to such objects.'
Capital: £25,000 divided into 5,000 shares of £5
Subscribers:
Carter, Edwin (5 shares) Merchant
Ferris, Richard (10 shares) Merchant
Leake, J Knight (1 share) Accountant
Paterson, Alfred Sweet (20 shares)
Merchant (Dir)
Reynolds, Joseph (1 share)
Wilson, Charles Edward (20 shares)
Merchant (Dir)
Winter, Edward (20 shares) 'No
occupation' (Dir)
Managing Director:
Richard Metcalfe
Registered Office: Grafenberg House
1878
Average number of shareholders:
35 holding 1,254 shares
Shareholders include:
Carter, Emma (5 shares)
Cory, John (5 shares) Proprietor of
Cardiff Colliery
Dorkin, George (30 shares) Gentleman
Leake, J Knight (10 shares)
Metcalfe, Richard (818 shares)
Paterson, Alfred Sweet (40 shares)
Philp, Shadrack (5 shares) Butcher
Philp, Thomas (10 shares) Farmer
Reynolds, Joseph (1 share)
Wilson, Charles Edward (20 shares)
Winter, Edward (40 shares)
1878
Agreement dated 9 July
between Richard Metcalfe and Charles Edward Wilson (as trustee for
the company) to purchase Grafenberg House for £2,000 in shares of
the company.
1879
Petition for winding up by
William Wilson and two shareholders as
creditors of the company on 22
February.
1886
Company disolved on
application by John Folland Lovering (liquidator) on 4 May.
Payments totalling £1-1-11 were made to 17 creditors.
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