The 1935 letter of agreement between William Henry Morgan and his new accountancy partner William Back survived the Blitz and is presented here on the page covering the firm Morgan Back and Co. The Company was based in the City of London in Gresham Street, EC2. Also surviving, is a detailed client list of the earlier company, John R Woodley, Morgan & Co. (J.R.W.M.) dating from 1931 and a further annotated version at least four or five years later. Continue reading →

John Richard Woodley was born in 1866 in Lewisham, South East London. He is recorded as being a Bank Accountant in 1891 before qualifying and becoming an Incorporated Accountant by 1895. He was in business with Sidney Kent, twelve years his junior, but someone who must have passed the newly created examinations at an early age. A partnership between John Woodley and Sidney Herbert Kent is recorded as being dissolved in October 1900. Some time during or immediately after the first world war John Woodley came together with a new partner, William Henry Morgan. This eventually became the firm John R Woodley, Morgan and Co. by 1927. Continue reading →