Miscellaneous transactions of Sir Cyril Kendall Butler

A piece of land from the Barrington Estate Sale of 1922. This was located at Shrivenham, close to the Victoria Inn by the Railway Station (see photo). There is a bundle of letters dating from mid November 1922 to mid August 1923. Lot 6 was purchased by James Fereman the Agent for Cyril Butler for £117.10. There are several supporting documents with this file. Details of all the Lots in the sale are in SHS N1512.

The sale of a small piece of land, close to Shrivenham Railway Station, sold by Sir Cyril Kendall Butler to the Great Western Railway Co for £50. The date is not certain but is likely to be circa 1933. Draft conveyance and plan in the file.

The sale of several small pieces of land by Cyril Butler  to the Gt Western Railway Co. Conveyance dated 21st December 1906 and refers to a plan that is missing. However, the land is likely to include all those pieces Cyril purchased from the Wilts & Berks Canal Co six years earlier (See N587).

Stable & Coach House at Paddington. A bundle of documents containing letters and leases to property at No 9 Devonport Mews, Paddington, London. It was originally leased by Cyril Kendall Butler from 1900 for 32 years at £6 per year. By 1926 he was renting it for £100 per year !

Exchange of Land, with the Great Western Railway. There is a bundle of letters, mainly between the Railway Co and Sir Cyril Butler, through their solicitors, concerning a two small pieces of land near one of the bridges at Bourton. Between Nov 1926 and Nov 1928, they eventually agree a deal. There are two drawings.

Personal Finance. Cyril Butler was an intelligent man (N507) and certainly knew his way around stocks, shares and borrowing. This file contains all the documents concerning financial matters. The largest monetary value item is from 1917 when he borrowed from Legal & General Life Assurance Co, £34,000 using his Bourton Estate as collaterall. (and that produced a wonderfully detailed list and map of the estate). There are long lists of stock from the latter part of the 19th century into the 20th. He also loaned money, in particular to Philip E.Hogg Esq in 1910, £3000 secured against a large, ornate, life assurance policy. Power's of Attorney firstly by his son Patrick and then his wife Louisa.