verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message king sturge llp type llp industry real estate founded 1760 headquarters 30 warwick street london w1b 5nh key people richard batten chris ireland number of employees 1600 2010 website www.kingsturge.com king sturge was an international property consultancy with over 210 offices and 4 200 staff in 45 countries . they operated throughout the uk and europe and had associations and partners in asia pacific and north central and south america . the firm covered all property sectors and related services such as logistics plant and machinery . the firm was formed in 1992 from the merger of king and co founded in 1920 and jp sturge which can trace its corporate roots back to 1760 . in may 2011 king sturge was purchased by jones lang lasalle for 197 million . contents 1 history 1.1 the sturges 1.2 the kings 1.3 king sturge 2 archives 3 references history edit the sturges edit in 1760 a farmer named john player of stoke gifford near bristol began surveying for mapping . although still relatively crude surveying became increasingly important as the enclosure of common land progressed in the early nineteenth century . in 1772 player was joined by his nephew jacob sturge forming the partnership player and sturge who ran their surveying business from red house farm in coombe dingle bristol . jacob and mary sturge s elder son young sturge born 1781 left his father s country practice in 1799 having agreed to take over the land measuring and planning aspects of the business and set up an office in small street bristol the rise of bristol was partly due to the slave trade but the city was the first to set up an abolition committee in 1788 . although the slave trade was abolished in 1807 slavery itself was not abolished until 1833 . abolition was in part due to a member of the quaker sturge family joseph sturge who led the campaign for abolition in birmingham . 1 in 1811 jacob sturge died and in 1814 his younger son jacob player sturge joined his brother young sturge in partnership as y and jp sturge land agents and surveyors . initially most of its business was with the enclosure of common land and the surveying of parish and private land . william sturge jp sturge s eldest son entered the office in 1836 at the age of 16 . he became a partner at the age of 22 in 1842 . following the death of young sturge in 1844 the firm became jp sturge & son becoming jp sturge & sons after william s younger brothers walter and robert also became partners . the great western railway was the most significant opportunity for bristol at this time as it needed the railway to compete with liverpool and manchester . central to the project for the station in bristol was the purchase of temple meads in 1838 for which jp sturge advised the city corporation . the surveyors institution which became the rics was founded in 1868 by 20 members of the land surveyors club founded in 1834 whose membership was primarily agriculture based on the work of enclosure and tithes commutation only three of the founders were from outside london including william sturge who became president of the institution in 1878 . before william sturge s death in 1905 his nephew theodore sturge and his grandson frederick allen sturge goodbody had joined the firm as none of william s sons wished to be surveyors . theodore was the last sturge to become a partner . in 1976 philip franklin senior partner of jp sturge who had joined the firm in 1938 aged 17 and returned from war service in 1947 became president of the rics 2 the kings edit in 1920 with his war pension and a small government gratuity herbert james king set up business in winchmore hill north london . the business called king & co traded as surveyors auctioneers valuers and estate agents . initially it was primarily residential based and included auctions at the london auction mart of both properties and contents . in 1925 king & co recognising the potential in commercial property moved to clements inn strand adjoining the law courts . by 1928 the firm had a turnover of 2 991 1s 6d and a profit of 1 032 5s 138 000 and 48 000 in 2010 terms . douglas james king joined the family firm in 1939 and became senior partner in 1959 . malcolm king joined king & co in 1970 establishing the new investment department . colin marsden joined king & co in 1959 from stiles horton ledger in brighton and become joint senior partner with malcolm king . king sturge edit following discussions between ned cussen and malcolm king king & co and jp sturge merged in 1992 . malcolm king developed both the uk and international businesses with an ownership structure in europe and associations elsewhere . he retired as senior partner in 2005 ending an 85 year three generation family leadership . malcolm king was succeeded by chris ireland and richard batten as joint senior partners . ireland joined king & co in 1979 and dealt with the major institutions and property companies . richard batten joined in 1982 after a commission in the army and headed the professional services group having expertise in the banking and corporate finance sectors . max crofts was then elected president of rics 3 becoming the third surveyors institution rics president from king sturge or their previous incarnations . archives edit many maps and plans dating between 1799 and 1947 drawn by the sturge surveyors are held at bristol record office ref . 31965 stg online catalogue as well as maps surveys deeds particulars of sale land stewards reports accounts and papers of the company dated between 1672 and 1918 ref . 32395 online catalogue references edit 1 sturge family website 2 past presidents rics website 3 rics website v t e real estate in the united kingdom real estate economy of the united kingdom companies developers and owners allied london 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