Samuel Gawthorpe was the leaseholder and occupier of the public house at 48 Charles Street. He claimed compensation for loss of trade caused by the positioning of a hoarding across Charles Street during building work at the India Office site.
In 1859 the India Office acquired premises on the south side of the Thames between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges from Messrs Lee, who ceded their interest in a 14 year term for a payment of £3,000. The lessee, Jesus College Oxford, then granted an extended lease to the India Office. New ware...
In 1873 the India Office acquired additional premises in Belvedere Road from Walter Langton who held a lease from Jesus College Oxford. The India Office paid Langton £6,600 for the assignment of the lease and £1,920 for the machinery on the premises. Part of the premises had been leased by Langto...
In 1898 a bill was submitted to Parliament for the compulsory purchase by the India Office of property at Belvedere Road from Jesus College Oxford. The property was acquired in 1899 at a cost of £55,000.
The Elm Grove estate at Ealing was purchased by the Secretary of State for India from Anna Eliza Perceval and her son Spencer Perceval for £24,500 in March 1870. Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt supervised the conversion of the house into a lunatic asylum for patients who had been sent home from India. Th...
Clause 32 of the Act passed in 1878 was intended to protect the interests of the Royal Indian Asylum: no more than two acres of land was to be acquired compulsorily without the consent of the Secretary of State; the railway was to pass through the grounds of the Asylum in a cutting; a bridge and ...
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