1926-Billhead/Receipt- Harvey Nichols & Co. Ltd- London

Description: This item is one of many items I will be listing over the coming months from the late Captain John Charles Fanshaw Royle. DEVON. Papers of Captain John Charles Fanshaw Royle (1884-1973) Educated at Wellington and Christ Church, Oxford, John Royle was called to the Bar in 1912. After civilian work, he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1918 and became an Acting Captain in the R.A.O.C. in 1919. In 1915, he married Amy Mabel the widow of James Cavan and went to live at her home Eaton Mascott Hall in Shropshire. Captain Royle appears not to have practised as a lawyer and led the life of a country gentleman helping run the estate and being involved in local affairs. In 1919, the family moved to Youlston Park, near Barnstaple, in Devon. These papers give an insight into the management of a country house in the first half of the twentieth century, with the details of running costs, maintenance, insurance, labour, super tax, motors, and personal expenses. A large collection of hundreds of documents contained in three large cardboard boxes: Numerous bills, invoices and receipts, many with decorative headings, for building, painting, plumbers, telephone, timber, coal, some from Pinxton Colliery, journal subscriptions, tithes, clothes, vets, cider, nurseries, plants and seeds, iron mongers for supplies to Youlston Park. Motor expenses, car insurance, AA key, Armstong Siddeley guarantee, 1926, bills for Prideaux's garage, Barnstaple. Repairs, servicing, purchases, car hire, for Napier and Singer 8 1928 guarantee, 1915 registration and purchase for Douglas motorcycle, 1922 driver's licence. Insurance policies, Income tax and Super tax forms and correspondence, shares, including Escot Rubber, dividend vouchers, war loan. Over 30 used cheque books, bank book. Legal documents, includes the lease of the Park 1921, correspondence concerning his mother's estate and her marriage settlement and his parents' wills. Address books, 1949 diary, particulars for sale of Youlston Estate, 1920 with plan Papers concerning North West Devon Conservative Association, Barnstaple Division, and Conservative party rosette. Letter dated 1926 asking to be J.P. North Devon Infirmary subscriptions and correspondence Milk Book, 1944, employees N.I. record book, Military documents and correspondence, leave passes, ration books, selection to Inns of Court OTC, 1918, and temporary commission as 2nd Lieutenant 6/11/1918. Commission as Lieutenant, 1921, medical examinations. Wallet with British Museum library card, fishing licences, Bar Examination Law lecture notes, bar certificate, 1912, and his birth certificate. Periodicals including Justice of the Peace, Journal of Criminal Law, North Devon Elector (1925). 3 real photographic postcards by R.L. Knight of Barnstaple, possibly showing election day and a photograph of Youlston Park With a large number of photographs etc. With papers of SYLVIA CAVAN [1882-1962] comprising a collection of over 60 letters, invoices, receipts to her, including from her brother, other relatives and friends, and concerning Exeter Diocese, and Women's Home Mission Association. With brochures, leaflets, etc, and four portrait photographs of her. Mostly dated 1920s-1950s, but some personal items earlier. YOULSTON PARK, near Barnstaple, had been in the Chichester family since it was built in 1516 and it was leased by Mrs Amy Royle in 1919. The following year, she purchased the freehold for £8,300 from Edward Chichester. Captain Royle probably left Youlston on his marriage to Barbara Chichester in 1951. In a Country Life article dated 1961 it is described as the home of Major Cavan and his sister Sylvia Cavan. In 1972, Captain Royle and Major Cavan agreed to sell the estate to J.S.C. Clark of Smythapark for £17,000 and the contents at Sotheby's valuation.

Price: 5.95 GBP

Location: Newtown

End Time: 2025-01-13T13:47:37.000Z

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