Birmingham Daily Post: Thursday 7th June 1883

The Affairs of Mr. Ambrose Biggs: A petition for liquidation was filed in the Birmingham County Court yesterday, before Mr. Registrar Cole, on behalf of Ambrose Biggs, carrying on business as a tobacco manufacturer and cigar merchant at No. 1 Bath Passage and as a tobacconist, at 101 Smallbrook Street, both in Birmingham … Upon the application of Messrs. Barlow, Smith, and Pinsent, of 39 Waterloo Street, solicitors for the debtor, the Registrar appointed Mr. L. J. Sharp (Messrs. L. J. Sharp and E. M. Sharp), of 120 Colmore row, chartered accountant, receiver and manager of the estate, and granted two interim injunctions to restrain proceedings by creditors.

[see also Liverpool Mercury: Thursday 7th June 1883]


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