Great Britain. Public Trustee Office

Descriptor
Associated Locale
Associated Language
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Trusts and trustees--Administration
Public trustees
(lcsh) Poor--Finance, personal
Legal assistance to the poor

found: Annual report of the Public Trustee 1970/71; 1985/86: p.1 (Stewart House, Kingsway, London WC2B 6JX) p.2 (first Public Trustee, the late Sir Charles Stewart) p.3 (Public Trustee Act, 2 Dec. 1906: will afford, especially to the poorer classes of the population, facilities for the safe and inexpensive management and distribution of trust funds) p.4 (Public Trustee Office was established at 3 & 4 Clements Inn Strand, London WC2 on 1 October 1907; Office first opened for business on 1 Jan. 1908; moved to its present home in Kingsway in Dec. 1915; Kingsway building now known as Stewart House; a branch office, under a Deputy Public Trustee, was maintained in Manchester between 1914 and 1956)

found: National Archives website, viewed 9 May 2014:under Records of the Public Trustee Office (set up in January 1908 to provide the public with the services of a perpetual trustee guaranteed by the state to administer trust funds; Public Trustee is empowered to act solely or jointly as executor or administrator of the estates of deceased persons or as trustee under a will or settlement and in other capacities of a like nature)

found: Public Trust Office. Annual report, 1995:t.p. (Public Trustee Office was renamed Public Trust Office on its launch as an executive agency in July 1994)

found: BL auth. file, 25 Feb. 2005(hdg.: Great Britain. Public Trustee Office; ref.: Office of the Public Trustee)