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Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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PRO (Public Record Office) documents are at The National Archives, Kew.
TNA: PRO: BT31 1989/8529 All unfootnoted information is taken from this file.
1874 Memorandum of Association: 3 July
Objects include: to purchase the lease of 23 Leicester Square,
'now occupied as a Turkish Bath and in the possession of the Reverend Henry Jones Master of Arts with the goodwill of the Baths, and all his present or future interest in the said premises at and for the sum of £300...in fully paid up shares of the said Balneum Laconicum Company Limited...'
Capital: £2,000 divided into 40 shares of £50
Subscribers:
Braithwaite, Charles John (1 share) Accountant
Curtis, George Brynon (2 shares) Journalist
Jones, Henry, The Rev, (8 shares)
Lemon, William George (2 shares) Barrister
Ryan, Thomas (2 shares) Landed proprietor, Dublin
Tomkins, Fred (4 shares) Barrister (Ch)
Wilkinson, William Martin (1 share) Solicitor
and three others holding 7 shares between them
Registered Office: 23 Leicester Square (7 July)
Secretary: Charles John Braithwaite
1875 Average number of shareholders: 12, holding 30 shares
1878 Average number of shareholders: 10, holding 30 shares
1885 No returns were filed between the years 1881 and 1885
Dissolved under Clause 7(4): 17 July
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