Description | Title deeds and leases, assignments of lease, and mortgages relating to land and houses in Highbury Park, Islington (formerly called the Longfield). H/K/10/1 is a marriage settlement, 18 July 1817, between Benjamin Hopkinson of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, and Louisa Ann, daughter of Francis Stedman of Pentonville, Middlesex, gentleman. H/K/10/3 (1822) refers back to a mortgage of the Longfield by John Dawes and Robert Mackreth to Philip, Earl of Stanhope, 1775. H/K/10/12-20 have plans of the property. |
AdminHistory | The land concerned was conveyed for development in 1891 to Charles Herbert Shoppee, the son of Charles John Shoppee, Treasurer of the Hospital, 1877-1887 and Deputy Governor, 1887-1897. |