Addiscombe Place, Croydon. Addiscombe Place near Croydon was purchased in 1809 by the East India Company from Emilius Henry Delmé Radcliffe for £16,604 10s. The mansion and grounds were acquired as a seminary for the Company's artillery and engineering cadets. Addiscombe became the Royal India Military College in 1858, and was sold in August 1861 after the reorganisation of the Indian and British Armies. The site was used for speculative building.
Miscellaneous: agreement between Bank of England and East India Company; bequest of Giles Hansford to East India Company; agreement concerning George Drake and Joseph Osorio settling at Madras and becoming partners in the diamond trade; bill of sale of goods distrained for rent in Blue Posts, Lime Street; lease of galleries ar Gresham College, Bishopsgate Street;  ...