Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Matheson and Co

From Graces Guide

of Lombard Street, London, merchants, dealers and general agents.

1868 Agents in Madras for Edward Ross and Thomas Frederick Andrew Agnew, of the firm of Messrs. Line and Company, discharged Insolvent Debtors.[1]

1879 of 3 Lombard St, London, applied for change of name for one of their client's vessels[2]

1887 Agents for Robert Watson & Co., Surdah, Lower Bengal.

1908 Incorporated as a limited company to take over as a going concern the business of Matheson and Co of London and elsewhere

By 1980 the principal business of the company was insurance broking, financial services, shipowning, ship broking, freight forwarding, travel, property investment and development[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 8 May 1868
  2. London Gazette 23 Dec 1879
  3. 1980 Annual report