Biographical entry: Wilbraham, Hon. Arthur Bootle
Summary
Papers of A.B. Wilbraham, chiefly regarding land and mining investments in Queensland, 1873-1904. Contents:
1. Letterbook, 1873, includes eight letters dealing with land near Rockhampton, and investments in companies such as the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Ltd.
2. Correspondence with the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. Ltd, 1878-1889, with directors' reports 1876-1883, 1885-1888, and other papers.
3. Correspondence, 1882-1884, regarding the estate of Edward Bootle Wilbraham, father of A.B. Wilbraham.
4. Correspondence, chiefly with the Queensland National Bank at Rockhampton regarding land at Rockhampton and investments in Mount Morgan and the Raub Australian Syndicate 1887-1892.
5. Raub Australian Syndicate memorandum and articles of association, 1889, with manuscript opinion on certain legal aspects of his operations and manuscript lists of the shareholders on its Brisbane Register 1892, and Singapore Register 1892.
6. Letters to Mrs Wilbraham, widow of A.B. Wilbraham regarding his estate and personal matters, 1898-1904.
7. Rockhampton Gas and Coke Co. Ltd, report and other papers, 1903.
Notes by Dr T.G. Barker of the London School of Economics on the Wilbraham papers, are filed with the collection. MITCHELL: A.3948.