| Reference Number | DE/6 |
| Title | BUSINESS RECORDS: MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF LORD DUDLEY'S SETTLED ESTATES (MINES DEPARTMENT) |
| Description | The Mines Department was run as a separate entity from the main estate administration from around 1804 (possibly as early as the 1780s, though it was probably introduced in 1797 by Charles Beaumont). Before the 1830s, the mineral affairs were administered from the Level Store Yard. In 1826 the mineral estate agent's house and offices were erected at The Priory in Dudley and it was from here that the department operated from the 1830s onwards.
Mineral Agents of the Dudley Estate:
Edward Cockshutt 1788 - 1797
Charles Beaumont 1797 - 1798
Charles Roberts 1789 - 1826
Francis Downing 1826 - 1836
Richard Smith 1836 - 1864
Frederick Smith 1864 - 1870
Edward Fisher Smith 1870 - 1886
C. Tylden Wright 1886 - 1891
Sir Gilbert H. Claughton 1891 - 1912
Claude Tryon 1912 - 1923
W. F. Clark 1923 - 1933
F. B. Clark 1933 - 1959* |
| Related Material | [*Information from T. Raybould, 'The Dudley Estate: Its Rise and Decline between 1774 and 1947' (Thesis, University of Kent, 1970) - Local Studies LD 333.33.] |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Level | Sub-Fonds |