Collection RS9 - Derwent Bank and Swanston Letterbooks

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Identity area

Reference code

AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS9

Title

Derwent Bank and Swanston Letterbooks

Date(s)

  • 1827-1854 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

6 vols and 1 file

Context area

Name of creator

(1789-1850)

Biographical history

Charles Swanston (1789-1850), banker and merchant, was born at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England, the son of Robert Swanston and Rebecca, daughter of Johnston Lambert of Mordington and Margaret Handyside of Tweedmouth. At 16 he was commissioned ... »

Name of creator

(1827-1849)

Administrative history

The Derwent Bank was established in 1827 and opened for business on 1 January 1828 in Davey Street, Hobart, with a staff of two, the cashier Stephen Adey and the accountant John Leake of Rosedale, Campbell Town. William Henry Hamilton was appointed ... »

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented to the Royal Society by Mrs C.N. Atkins

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Collection consists of letter books of the Derwent Bank also the private letter books of Charles Swanston

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing reproduction

This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au

Publication note

Another Swanston Letter book is held by the State Library of Victoria (1835-1840)

Publication note

S.J. Butlin, 'Charles Swanston and the Derwent Bank', Hist. Studies N.Z. & Aust., No.7, May 1943

Publication note

W.D.Hudspeth, 'The rise and fall of Charles Swanston', Pap. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1948 pp 1-16

Publication note

Robin, ED 2017 , 'Captain Charles Swanston : ‘man of the world’ and Van Diemen’s Land merchant statesman', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23808/

Publication note

Swanston : merchant statesman / Eleanor Robin, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018. http://encore.lib.utas.edu.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2675975

Access points

Dates of creation revision deletion

HE Apr.2020