Joseph Quarton's Household Account Books

Date:
1873-1878
Reference:
RET/3/4/3
Part of:
The Retreat Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

This group of account books and other volumes all belonged to Joseph Quarton, appointed Secretary and House Steward in December 1872, and discharged for defalcations in July 1878. He had embezzled over £400, but because the Committee had taken out a Guarantee policy on his appointment, they were reimbursed for most of this sum. Quarton's fraud led to a change in the system of audit, and to a strengthening of the supervision of the Superintendent over the Secretary These account books were presumably gathered together when the Secretary's accounts were investigated. Many have been subsequently wrapped in brown paper wrappers which are glued to the original covers. All the accounts and papers are fairly low level in detail, and are good surviving examples of the many memorandum and day to day books which underlay the main financial records

Publication/Creation

1873-1878

Physical description

13 volumes, 2 bundles and 3 files

Terms of use

Open and available at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. This material has been digitised by the Borthwick Institute for Archives as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project, and can be freely accessed online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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