Constituent Banks

This is a list of all the domestic banks which became part of Barclays. The names in blue indicate the main bank which merged with Barclays. Indented names are banks which had previously been taken over by each main bank prior to its merger with Barclays. Further indentations indicate earlier take-overs or mergers.

Banks which took part in the 1896 amalgamation are highlighted.

Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Ransom, Bouverie & Co, Lombard Street, 1888-1896 Barclay, Bevan, Tritton & Co,1690-1888 Spooner, Attwood & Co, Lombard Street, 1801-1863 Ransom, Bouverie & Co, Pall Mall, 1786-1888 Lockhart & Co, 1787-1798 Bouverie, Murdoch, Bouverie & James, Haymarket, 1813-1856 Hall, Bevan, West & Bevans [Brighton Union Bank], 1805-1894 Wigney & Co, [Brighthelmstone Bank], 1787-1842

Backhouse, Jonathan & Co, Darlington, 1774-1896

Gurneys & Co, Norwich, 1775-1896 Tompson, Barclay & Ives, Norwich, 1792-1832 Copeman & Co, Aylsham, 1809-1855 Harvey & Hudson & Co, [Crown Bank], 1792-1870 Allday & Kerrison, 1768-1808 Taylor & Dyson, [Norfolk & Suffolk Bank], 1802-51 Ipswich Bank, Alexanders, 1744-1878, & Gurneys to 1896 Wallis Miles, Ipswich ?-1776 Bridges & Co, Manningtree, 1790-1816? Riches & Collet, [Woodbridge Bank], 1797-1805, Alexanders & Collet 1805- 1826 Cooper & Co, [Woodbridge & Suffolk Bank], 1797-1805 Huddlestone & Co, Bury St Edmunds, 1776–1880 Round, Green, Hoare & Co, Colchester, 1774-1891, & Gurneys to 1896 Mills, Bawtree & Co, Colchester & Essex, 1774?-1891

Gurneys, Birkbeck, Barclay & Buxton, Wisbech, 1782 - 1896

Gurneys, Birkbeck, Barclay, Buxton & Orde, Yarmouth, 1781-1896

Gurneys, Birkbeck, Barclay, Buxton & Cresswell, Kings Lynn, 1782-1896 Everards & Co, Kings Lynn, 1764-1861 Jarvis & Jarvis, Kings Lynn, 1808-1888

1 Gurney, Birkbeck, Barclay, Buxton & Orde, Halesworth, 1782-1896

Gurney, Birkbeck, Barclay & Buxton, Fakenham, 1792-1896

Goslings & Sharpe, Fleet Street, 1650-1896

Sparrow, Tufnell & Co, Chelmsford & Braintree, 1803-1896 Giles James, Rochford, 1828-1853

Bassett Son & Harris, Leighton Buzzard, 1812-1896

Sharples, Tuke, Lucas & Seebhom, Hitchin 1820-1896

Gibson, Tuke & Gibson, Saffron Walden 1824-1896 Searle, Sons & Co, Safffron Walden, 1797-1826

Fordham, Gibson & Co, Royston, 1808-1896

J Mortlock & Sons, Cambridge, 1780-1896

Veasey, Desborough & Co, Huntingdon, 1804-1896

Molineux, Whitfeld & Co, Lewes, 1789-1896

Woodall, Hebden & Co, Scarborough, 1788-1896

Woods & Co, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1853-1897 Newcastle, Shields & Sunderland Union, 1836-1853 Chapman & Spence, North & South Shields, 1818-1836 Chayter, Frankland & Wilkinson, Sunderland, 1829-1836

Swaledale & Wensleydale Banking Co, 1805-1899

Milbanke, Woodbridge, Gruggen & Gauntlett, 1809 -1900

Woodbridge, Lacy & Co, [Uxbridge Old Bank], 1791-1900 Lacy, Hartland & Co, West Smithfield, 1809-1892

Parsons, Thomson & Co, [Oxford Old Bank], 1771-1900

Marten, Part & Co, St Albans, 1773-1902

J & J W Pease, Darlington, 1820-1902

Roper & Priestman, [Richmond Bank], 1792-1902

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York Union Banking Co, 1833-1902 Simpson, Chapman & Co, Whitby Old Bank, 1785-1892 Peases' Old Bank, Hull, 1754-1894 Machell, Peases & Hoare, Beverley, 1797-1894

Thomas Ashby & Co, Staines, 1796-1904 La Coste & Co, Chertsey, 1808-1876 C C Wetton, Egham, 1823-1866 Coggan, Morris & Co, [Middlesex & Surrey Bank], 1810-1813

Bolitho, Williams, FOSTER, COODE & GRYLLS 1889-1905 Bolitho Sons & Co, [Mounts Bay Bank], 1807-1889 Penzance Union Bank, 1810-1847 Helston Banking Co, 1836-1878 Helston Union Bank 1788-1879 Robins, Foster, Coode & Bolitho, E Cornwall, 1807-1889 Hodge & Co, Devonport & Plymouth, 1804-1889 Willyams, Willyams & Co, Truro, 1771-1890 Willyams, Treffry & Co, [South Cornwall Bank], 1864-1890 Williams, Williams & Grylls, [West Cornwall Bank], Falmouth & Redruth, 1863-1890 J M Williams & Co, Redruth, 1877-1884 Bain, Field, Hitchin & Co, Redruth, 1879-1891 Batten, Carne & Carnes, Penzance, 1795-1896

Hammond & Co, Newmarket, 1770-1905

Leatham, Tew & Co, West Riding, 1800-1906 Ingram, Kennet & Ingram, Wakefield, 1785-1809

Wooten & Co, Oxford, 1855-1909

Stamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Co, 1831-1911 Bugg & Co, Spalding Commercial Bank, ?-1831 Smith & Ridsdale, Oundle Commercial Bank, ?-1831 Kewney & King, Grantham, 1812-1848 Simpson, White & Co, Peterborough, 1821-1849 Bourne, Rhodes & Co, Alford, 1844-1861 Eland & Eland, Thrapston, 1812-1888 Eaton, Cayley & Co, Stamford, 1800-1891

John & Charles Simonds & Co, Reading, 1791-1913

Neville, Reid & Co, Windsor, 1780-1914

3 United Counties Bank Ltd, 1907-1916 Birmingham District & Counties 1889-1907 Bradford Old Bank Ltd, 1803-1907 Harrison & Co, Knaresborough, 1785-1875 Hughes & Morgan, Brecon, 1855-1890 Midland Counties District Bank Ltd, 1889-1904 [known as Nottingham & District] Wakefield & Barnsley Union Bank, 1832-1906 Beckett, Birks & Co, Barnsley, 1796-1840 Abergavenny Financial Co, 1885-1890 Birmingham Dudley & District, 1874-1889 Wolverhampton & Staffordshire Bank, 1831-1889 Midland Banking Co, 1863 - 1881 Goodricke & Holyoake, Wolverhampton, 1816-1863 Herefordshire Banking Co, 1836-1863 Craddock & Bull, Nuneaton London & Northern Joint Stock Bank 1862-1864 Saxton Brothers, Market Drayton, 1851-1872 Birmingham Town & District Bank 1836-1874 Dudley & West Bromwich Banking Co, 1833-1874

London Provincial & South Western Bank Ltd, 1917-1918 London & South Western Bank Ltd, 1862-1917 West London Commercial Bank Ltd, 1866-1887 London & Provincial Bank Ltd, 1864-1917 Day, Nicholson & Stone, Rochester, 1782-1864 East of England Bank, Norwich, 1836-1864 Norfolk & Norwich Joint Stock Bank, 1826-1864 Day & Co, Norwich & Swaffham, 1806-1825 Bank Of Wales Ltd, 1863-1865 Lock, Hulme & Co, Pembroke, 1850-1864 James Maclean, Pembroke Dock, 1862-1864 Portsmouth, Portsea, Gosport & S Hants, 1832-1865 Fincham, Simpson & Co, Diss, 1793-1871 J & W Walters, Haverfordwest, 1827-1872 North Kent Banking Co, 1864-1878 West of England & South Wales District Bank, 1834-1878

Gillett & Co, Banbury & Oxford, 1784-1918 Clinch & Co, Witney, 1791-1891

Union Bank of Manchester, 1836-1940 (Affiliated with Barclays 1919) J Sewell & Nephew, Manchester, 1841-1888 E W Yates & Co, Liverpool, ?-1904 Blackburn Bank Ltd, 1881?-1906

4 Downes, Groom & Hamilton, Nantwich, 1860s?-1907 Halifax & District Permanent Banking Co, 1909-1917 East Morley & Bradford Deposit Bank Ltd, 1870 - 1918

Tubb & Co, Bicester, 1793-1920

Gunner & Co, Bishops Waltham, 1809-1953

Ideal Bank, Birmingham, 1896-1957

Martins Bank Ltd/Bank of Liverpool, 1918–1969 Cocks, Biddulph & Co, Charing Cross, 1757-1919 Codd & Co, 1802-1886 Palatine Bank Ltd, 1899-1919 Halifax Commercial Banking Co Ltd, 1779-1920 John Garlick, Halifax, 1808-1811 E Reed & Sons, Cattle Trade Bank, 1863-1925 Equitable Bank Ltd, Halifax, 1899-1927 Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank Ltd, 1864-1928 Mercantile Bank of Lancashire Ltd, 1890-1904 Manx Bank Ltd, 1882-1900 William Brown & Sons, 1830-1899 London & Lancashire Bank, Southport, 1885-1899 West Riding Union Bank Ltd, 1779-1902 Hagues, Cook & Wormald, Dewsbury, 1818-1836 Adelphi Bank Ltd, 1862-1899 Preston Union Bank Ltd, 1869-1894 Grundy & Wood, Bury Banking Co, 1798-1888 British Mutual Bank Ltd, 1857-1951 Lewis's Bank Ltd, 1934-1958 Bank of Liverpool 1831-1919 Arthur Heywood & Sons, Liverpool, 1773-1883 Liverpool Commercial Bank, 1832-1889 Wakefield, Crewdson & Co, Kendal Bank, 1840-1893 John Wakefield, Kendal, 1788-1840 Maude, Wilson & Crewdsons, Kendal, 1788-1840 Petty & Postlethwaite, Ulverston, 1804-1863 Grice & Co, Bootle, Cumberland, 1840?-1884 Craven Bank, Settle, Skipton, 1791-1906 Chippendale, Netherwood & Carr, 1807-1826 Carlisle & Cumberland Banking Co, 1836-1911 Mackie, Davidson & Gladstone, Carlisle, 1860-1881 North Eastern Banking Co Ltd, 1872-1914 Alnwick & County Bank, 1858-1875 Dale, Young & Co, South Shields, 1858-1892

5 Martin’s Bank Ltd, 1563-1918

British Linen Bank British Linen Company founded 1846, recognised as a bank 1765, became a subsidiary of Barclays 1919, merged with Bank of Scotland 1969

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