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Southsea Turkish Baths and Hydropathic Company Limited

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Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline

Southsea Turkish Baths and Hydropathic Company Limited

Company baths:

SOUTHSEA: 24 King's Terrace

Please note that, as handwriting is often unclear, names of shareholders are indicative only. When accuracy is important, visitors should consult the original documents;
those with PRO references will be found at The National Archives (Public Record Office, Kew)

PRO: BT31 6707/47143 (All information is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)

1896 Memorandum of Association: 9 March

Objects include: execution of an agreement between William Billett Martin and the Company for the sale of 23 and 24 King's Terrace.

Capital: £3,000 divided into 3,000 shares of £1

Subscribers:

Cornelius-Wheeler, John (401 shares) Dentist (Dir)

Cornelius-Wheeler, Laura (31 shares)

Helby, Sylvia Sidney (26 shares) Widow

Matthews (26 shares) Naval outfitter

Owen, Charles (6 shares)

Robertson, John Robert Stevenson, MD (51 shares) (Dir)

Rurl, Percival (26 shares) Physician and surgeon

Registered Office: 24 King's Terrace (10 March)

Shareholders include:

Britton, Charles Levers (100 shares) Major

Hall, Ernest (200 shares) Surveyor

Watson, James (100 shares) Doctor *

and 49 others

1901 Directors:Cornelius-Wheeler, John
Hall, Ernest
Robertson, John Robert Stevenson
Shareholders include:
Watson, James (100 shares) Doctor *

1905 Directors:
Cornelius-Wheeler, John
Hall, Ernest
Robertson, John Robert Stevenson
Shareholders include:
Watson, James (100 shares) Doctor *
Extraordinary Meeting: Voluntary winding up (6 November)
Liquidator: G W Edmonds

1906 Sale: The Turkish baths were sold by liquidator to a new owner. This might have been the Company's Manager, F Brough Burden, although entries in directories continue to list him as the manager.
Winding up: (7 August)

* A close friend of Arthur Conan Doyle and the model for Sherlock Holmes's biographer, Dr Watson (who, like Holmes, was a staunch believer in the Turkish bath)

This page last updated 03 August 2010

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