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RefNoK509/1/5
AltRefNo509/1/5
TitleDocuments produced in the Chancery Case of Lamprell v Mortlock, 1868
DescriptionThis case was brought by Catherine Frances Lamprell, daughter of Frederick C. Mortlock against the Rev. Edmund Davy Mortlock and Edmund John Mortlock. Frederick's eldest son (John Frederick) had held a violent grudge against his uncles, believing that they had withheld the inheritance from his father. The origins of the grudge date back to Thomas Mortlock’s actions in relation to Frederick’s mismanagement of the bank. In 1842 John Frederick Mortlock had attacked his uncle the Revd Edmund Davy Mortlock, but had done him no serious harm. He was condemned and sent to Botany Bay in Australia (Dr A. E. Clark-Kennedy From Cambridge to Botany Bay, 1983 (Cambridgeshire Archives C.52). By 1866 John Frederick was writing to his uncle Edmund John Mortlock informing him of his intent to take proceedings against him and Rev. Edmund Davy Mortlock to recover property of Frederick Cheetham Mortlock, left in trust for his children (509/1/5/1/11, dated 4 October 1866). The case was settled in 1869 in favour of Edmund Davy Mortlock and Edmund John Mortlock. Without further research it is difficult to judge how fair Thomas’ original arrangements were. What is certain is that sadly his nephew believed not only that his father had been ill-used by Thomas, but that subsequent generations of Mortlocks had withheld a rightful inheritance from him. (See also 509/1/6).
Date1817-1869
CreatorNameMortlock Bank and Estate
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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