British Bankers' Association List of Mergers (from http://www.bba.org.uk/bba/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=144&a=506) 04/07/2002 Abbey National Plc 1944 - Abbey Road 1949 - Swansea Thrift P 1968 - Definite P 1970 - The State 1974 - Highgate 1979 - Oak Co-Operative National & Provincial 1954 - Haslemere & Dt Mut. 1983 - Burnley 1985 - Haslemere Provincial 1944 - Bradford Third Equity 1945 - Devon & Cornwall/Leeds Provincial 1966 - Keighley & Craven 1967 - Uxbridge P BI 1974 - Elgin Property Inv. Burnley 1960 - Westmorland P BI. 1968 - Borough 1969 - Whitehaven & West Cumberland BI. 1997 - Cater Allen purchased. Alliance & Leicester Plc Brighton & Sussex 1863-1945 1936 - Hythe 1936 - Reliance 1937 - Ealing amalgamated with Brighton & Sussex 1937 - Wrexham Ruabon & North Wales 1938 - Manchester & Salford Permanent Benefit 1938 - Manchester & Salford 1939 - Leeds City & District 1939 - Ormskirk & Southport 1944 - Crowborough 1944 - Folkestone 1944 - Taunton & West of England 1944 - Bridlington and Quay 1944 - Leeds Commercial 1945 - Central Alliance 1945 -1985 1945 - Numneaton Chilvers Coton 1946 - Folkestone Hythe and Sandgate 1947 - Dover and East Kent 1948 - Croydon 1948 - Consolidated 1948 - Kent Reliance 1948 - Yorkshire 1961 - Barrow on Soar 1963 - Stockport Mechanics 1966 - City Prudential 1975 - Inverness Leicester Permanent 1852 - 1974 1957 - Quorn 1959 - Lindsey Leicester Temperance 1875-1974 1957 - Wigston Conservative 1962 - G Wigston 1974 - Leicester Permanent & Leicester Temperance joined to form The Leicester Leicester 1974 - 1985 1984 - Boston and Skirbeck 1985 - Leicester BS and Alliance BS Allied Bank of Pakistan Ltd 1942 - Established as Australasia Bank Ltd. 1974 - Nationalised. 1974 - Name changed as above. 1991 - Privatised 10th September. Allied Irish Bank (GB) Trading division of AIB Group (UK) plc Alpha Bank London Ltd 1922 - Established as The Commercial Bank of the Near East Limited. 1982 - Re registered as the Commercial Bank of the Near East plc. 1990 - Name changed to Commercial Bank of London plc. 1995 - Name changed as above. American Express Bank Ltd 1919 - Established as American Express Company Inc. 1985 - Name changed as above. Bank of Ireland 1783 - Established by Royal Charter 1958 - Hibernian Bank Ltd 1966 - The National Bank of Ireland Limited Bank of Scotland 1695 - Established and in 1907 acquired the Caledonian Banking Co. Ltd. 1955 - The Union Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1958 - NorthWest Securities Ltd. 1969 - The British Linen Bank. Fusion 1-3-1971. Barclays Bank Plc 1690 - Private Bank. 1896 - Incorporated - amalgamation of Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Ransom, Bouverie & Co of Norwich. 1916 - United Counties Bank Ltd. 1918 - London Provincial & SouthWestern Bank Limited. 1919 - the Union Bank of Manchester Ltd. 1919 - British Linen Bank subsequently disposed of to the Bank of Scotland 1969. 1969 - Martins bank Limited. Bradford & Bingley 1967 - Erdington 1967 - Birmingham Central 1967 - Ulverston 1970 - Scholes Permanent 1978 - Chorley 1980 - Spread Eagle 1981 - Hyde 1982 - Saddleworth 1982 - Swansea Park 1982 - Target 1982 - Hearts of Oak & Enfield 1983 - Housing & General 1983 - Padiham 1983 - Stockport & Mersey 1983 - Horsham 1983 - United Provinces 1984 - Dover & Folkstone 1984 - Glamorgan 1984 - Clapham 1985 - Merseyside 1985 - Hibernian 1985 - Foresters 1986 - Stanley 1990 - Chilterns 1990 - Sheffield 1990 - Louth, Mablethorpe & Sutton 1991 - Hendon 1991 - Hampshire 1991 - Leamington 1993 - Bexhil-on-Sea Bristol & West Plc 1937 - Victoria 1937 - Third Bristol Bt 1955 - British Workman & General Bt. 1956 - Provident P 1956 - Reading & High Wycombe 1957 - Southampton 1957 - Farnham Bt 1959 - Fourth Bristol P 1960 - Shepton Mallet P Bt 1961 - St Marylebone & Suburban (East Ham & DT. P.) 1966 - Dorchester (Dorchester & County of Dorset Econ.Bt.) 1967 - South-East Essex P. 1967 - Vectis 1968 - Brighton, Hove & Preston 1969 - Gresham Circle (New Gresham) 1969 - Greater Brighton & Dt. P.B.S. 1970 - North Herts 1971 - Royal Mutual Bt. 1970 - Pontypool P 1970 - Chelmsford & Essex 1972 - Somersetshire 1974 - West London 1975 - Caledonion (Farmers & General) 1977 - South Wales West (Landore, Swansea Imperial,National Emblem, Clydach,Swansea Rock) 1978 - Wilchester 1979 - Poole (Town & Country of Poole) 1991 - Cheshunt (Thrift, General Thrift, Aid to Thrift) Cater Allen Bank 1888 - Established as Vaile & Carew. 1905 name changed to Allen Harvey & Ross. 1981 - Allen Harvey & Ross plc and Cater Ryder plc merged to form Cater Allen plc. 1982 - Named changed as above. 1994 - absorbed Tyndall Bank plc. 1997 - purchased by Abbey National. Cheltenham & Gloucester 1898 -Gloucester Second Richmond BS 1898 -Gloucester Third Richmond BS 1898 -Gloucester Perfect Thrift BS 1909 -Gloucester BS 1913 - East Gloucestershire BS 1943 -Surrey BS 1948 -Permanent Salopian Benefit BS 1951 - Euitable Benefit BS 1960 - Yeaovil & South SOmerset Mutual BS 1961 - Vale of Evesham BS 1971 - Hitchin Mutual Permanent BS 1973 - Smethwick BS 1974 - Tewkesbury & District BS 1976 - North London BS 1984 - Cotswold BS (new name of Wotton-under-Edge & Dursley Phoenix Permanent Benefit BS 1973) 1985 - Waltam Abbey BS 1987 - Colchester BS (Clacton BS 1957) 1987 - London Permanent BS 1970 - Productive BS 1946 - Royal Benefit (London) BS 1946 - Second West End Mutual Benefit BS 1987 - Cardiff BS 1988 - Essex Equitable BS 1988 - Bolton BS 1977 - Rowland Hill Permanent BS 1891 - New Langbourn Mutual Benefit BS 1989 - Bury St Edmunds BS 1952 - Mildenhall & District Permanent BS 1990 - Bedford BS 1974 - Strand & County Permanent BS 1968 - Homestead BS 1965 - Surrey & Sussex BS 1990 - Guardian BS (New name of West London & Provincial BS) 1945 - London Atlas Permanent BS 1990 - Peckham BS 1990 - Walthamstow BS 1977 - South Manchester BS 1991 - Portsmouth BS 1991 - Bedford Crown BS 1992 - Mid-Sussex BS 1891 - Burgess Hill & Hurstpierpoint BS 1982 - Sydenham BS 1993 - Heart of England BS 1974 - Walsall Mutual BS 1967 - Rugby & Warwick BS 1953 - Walsall Permanent BS 1953 - Daventry & District Permanent BS 1974 - Oxford Provident BS 1978 - Coalville Permanent BS 1988 - Kidderminster Equitable BS 1967 - Rowley Regis BS 1966 - Cradley Heath BS Citibank 1812 - Established as City Bank of New York 2000 - Traveller Group 2000 - Soloman Smith Barney Clydesdale Bank Plc 1825 - Dundee Commercial Bank 1825 - Aberdeen Town & County Bank 1836 - North of Scotland Banking Company 1838 - Eastern Bank of Scotland 1838 - Southern Bank of Scotland 1838 - Edinburgh and Lekh Bank 1838 - Clydesdale Banking Company 1840 - Greenock Union Bank 1843 - Glasgow Joint Stock Bank 1844 - Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank 1844 - Bank of Glasgow 1882 - Town & County Bank Limited 1882 - North of Scotland Bank Limited 1883 - Clydesdale Bank Limited 1950 - Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited 1963 - Change to Clydesdale Bank Limited 1982 - Clydesdale Bank PLC 1987 - Clydesdale became wholly owned sub of National Australia Bank Limited Credit Lyonnais Alexanders Discount Plc Gillett Brothers Discount Company Plc Jessel, Toynbee & Gillett Dunbar Bank Plc 1969 - Established as Dunbar & Company Ltd 1985 - Name changed to Allied Dunbar & Company plc 1988 - Name changed to Dunbar Bank plc Duncan Lawrie Ltd 1977 - Sterling Industrial Securities. First Trust Bank 1816 - Established as Belfast Savings Bank. 1986 - name changed to TSB Northern Ireland plc. 1994 - Trading division of AIB Group (UK) plc. Halifax Plc 1853 - Established as Halifax Permanent Building Society. Merged with Leeds 1995. 1961 - Aberdeen Property Inv. 1936 - Alford & Dt. Inv. Bt. 1965 - Borough of Hove P. Inv. 1958 - Braintree & Bocking 1948 - Braintree & Bocking P.Bt. 1970 - Chertsey 1959 - Doncaster 1982 - Dorking 1968 - Dorking Inv. & P.Bt. 1970 - Earlestown 1953 - Earlestown, Newton, Haydock, Golborne & Ashton Pt.Bt. 1990 - Eatsbourne Mutual 1941 - Great Northern P.Bt. 1928 - Halifax Equitable 1928 - Halifax Permanent 1970 - Hove & South Coast 1964 - Hove, Cliftonville & Preston P.Bt. 1958 - Hull 1958 - Leeds Permanent 1975 - Lewes 1938 - Lewes Co-op Bt. 1937 - Littlehampton & Dt.P 1946 - London & North Eastern Railway 1945 - Luton & Midlands 1962 - Midlands 1977 - Mitcham 1986 - Mitcham & Metropolitan 1977 - Newton, Haydock & Goldborne P.Bt. 1929 - North Brierly Equitable 1971 - Pelham P 1982 - Rye Bt. 1950 - Rye, East Sussex & Kent P. Bt. B & Inv.S 1965 - South Coast 1977 - South Metropolitan P. 1992 - Southdown 1937 - Steyning P.Bt. 1962 - Steyning & Littlehampton 1975 - Steyning & Sussex County 1960/1990 - Sussex county 1999 - Birmingham Midshires HSBC Bank Plc 1836 - Established as the Birmingham & Midland Bank. 1829 - Metropolitan Bank (of England and Wales) Ltd 1889 - Birmingham Banking Company (via Metropolitan Bank of England and Wales Ltd) 1891 - Central Bank of London Ltd 1894 - Preston Banking Co Ltd 1897 - Huddersfield Banking Co Ltd 1898 - City Bank Ltd 1901 - Yorkshire Banking Co Ltd 1908 - North and South Wales Bank Ltd 1909 - York City and County Bank (via London Joint Stock Bank) 1910 - Bradford Banking Co Ltd 1913 - Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank Ltd 1918 - London Joint Stock Bank Ltd 1999 - Midland Bank plc (in terms of name change) Lazard Bank Ltd 1919 - Established to take over Lazard Bros 1960 - Edward de Stein & Co Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 1765 - Taylors & Lloyds 1853 - Name changed to Lloyds & Company 1840 - J L Moilliet & Sons 1865 - The Above amalgamated to form Lloyds Banking Company Limited 1884 - Title changed to Lloyds, Barnetts & Bosanquets Bank Limited 1889 - Title changed to Lloyds Bank Limited 1865 - P & H Williams 1866 - Stevenson, Salt & Co 1866 - Warwick & Leamington Banking Company 1866 - Birmingham Banking Company (Dudley branch only) 1868 - A Butlin & Son 1872 - R & W F Fryer 1874 - Shropshire Banking Company 1879 - Coventry & Warwickshire Banking Company 1880 - Beck & Co 1881 - Whitchurch & Ellesmere Banking Co 1884 - Barnetts, Hoares, Hanbury & Lloyd 1884 - Bosanquet, Salt & Company 1888 - Pritchard Gordon & Co 1889 - Birmingham Joint Stock Bank Limited 1889 - Worcester City and County Banking Company 1890 - Wilkins & Co 1890 - Beechings & Co 1891 - Praeds & co 1891 - Cobb & Co 1891 - Hart, Fellows & Co 1892 - Twinning & Co 1892 - Head & Co 1892 - Bristol and West of England Bank Limited 1893 - Curteis,pomfret & co 1893 - Herries,Farquhar & co 1894 - Bromage & co 1895 - Pagets & Kirby 1897 - County of GloucesterBank 1897 - Williams & Co 1898 - Jenner & Co 1899 - Burton Union Bank Ltd 1899 - Stephens Blandy & Co 1900 - Vivian, Kitson & Co 1900 - Liverpool Union Bank 1900 - Cunliffe, Brooks & Co 1900 - William Williams Brown & Co 1900 - Brown, Janson & Co 1902 - Bucks & Oxon Union Bank Ltd 1902 - Pomfret & Co 1903 - Grant & Maddison's Union Banking Co Ltd 1905 - Hedges, Wells & Co 1906 - Devon & Cornwall Banking Co 1908 - Lambton & Co 1909 - David Jones & Co 1911 - Hill & Sons 1912 - Peacock Wilson & Co 1914 - Wilts & Dorset Banking Company 1918 - Capital & Counties Bank 1919 - West Yorkshire Bank Ltd 1921 - Fox Bros. Fowler & Co 1923 - Cox & Co TSB Birmingham Municipal Bank Aberdeen Savings Bank Alexandria: The Vale of Leven Savings Bank Arbroath Savings Bank Ashton-Under-Lyne and District Trustee Savings Bank Belfast Savings Bank Blackburn Savings Bank Bolton Savings Bank The Border Counties Trustee Savings Bank Boston Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Trustee Savings Bank Bury Savings Bank Bute Savings Bank, Rothesay Cambeltown and District Savings Bank Cardiff Carlisle and North-Western Counties Savings Bank Castle Douglas Savings Bank Chester, Wrexham & North Wales Savings Bank Chorley Savings Bank Coventry Savings Bank Croydon Cuper-Fife Savings Bank Dalkeith Savings Bank Derby Savings Bank Devon & Exeter Savings Bank Devonport Dundee Savings Bank Dunfermline & District Savings Bank East Anglian Trustee Savings Bank East Midlands Trustee Savings Bank Edinburgh Savings Bank Enniskillen Savings Bank Essex Trustee Savings Bank Exeter Falkirk & Countries Savings Bank Galashiels Glasgow, The Savings Bank Guernsey Savings Bank Hawick Savings Bank Huddersfield & Upper Agbrigg Savings Bank Hull Savings Bank Ilford Inverness Savings Bank Jedburgh Savings Bank Jersey Savings Bank Kinggussie Savings Bank Kirkcaldy & District Trustee Savings Bank Laurencelkirk Savings Bank Leeds Skyrac & Morley Savings Bank Leicester Savings Bank Leigh Savings Bank Lincoln Savings Bank Liverpool Savings Bank London Trustee Savings Bank Newburgh, Fife, Savings Bank Northampton & County Trustee Savings Bank North Staffordshire & District Trustee Savings Bank Norwich Nottingham Trustee Savings Bank Ormskirk Trustee Savings Bank Oxford Trustee Savings Bank Paisley Trustee Savings Bank Perth. The Savings Bank of the County & City of Perth Plymouth, Devonport & Cornwall Trustee Savings Bank Portsmouth Trustee Savings Bank Preston Savings Bank Reading Rothesay Rye & Winchester Savings Bank Sheffield Savings Bank Shrewsbury Somerset & Wilts Savings Bank South Eastern Trustee Savings Bank South Shields Savings Bank South Wales East,Monmouthshire(Cardiff)Savings Bank South West Wales (Swansea) Savings Bank Stirling District & County Savings Bank Stockport & District Trustee Savings Bank Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Savings Bank Surrey Trustee Savings Bank Swansea Taunton Thames Valley Trustee Savings Bank Walshall & District Trustee Savings Bank Warrington & District Trustee Savings Bank Wessex Trustee Savings Bank West Midland Trustee Savings Bank (Shrewsbury) Wigan Savings Bank Wolverhampton & District Trustee Savings Bank York County Savings Bank Trustee Savings Bank in Eire Cork Savings Bank Dublin Savings Bank Limerick Savings Bank Monaghan Savings Bank Waterford Savings Bank Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd 1919 - Established as Private bank 1932 - The Bank for Russian Trade Limited NatWest Bank 1834 - London & Westminster 1864 - Jones Lloyd London joined above 1836 - London & County 1907 - Burt Cornhill 1909 - London County & Westminster formed 1788 - Parr & Co Warrington established 1865 - Name change to Parr's Bank 1892 - Alliance 1896 - Consolidated joined 1898 - Derby & Derbys 1902 - Pares's Leicestershire 1908 - Whitehave Joint Stock 1909 - Stuckleys Somersetshire 1914 - Crompton & Evans Derby 1917 - Ulster Bank 1918 - London County Westminster & Parrs Formed 1919 - Nottingham & Notts 1921 - Becketts Yorkshire 1923 - Westminster Bank formed 1829 - Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co Est. 1829 - Christy Lloyd Stockport 1863 - Lloyd Entwisle Manchester 1907 - Lancaster 1916 - Bank of Whitehaven 1862 - Manchester & county 1866 - Buckley & Co Saddleworth 1896 - Bank of Bolton 1924 - District Bank formed 1833 - National Provincial Bank of England 1842 - Devon County 1871 - Camarthen 1839 - Union Bank of London 1902 - Union of London & Smiths 1903 - Kentish Bank 1903 - Prescotts Threadneedle St 1903 - Miles Bristol 1903 - Dimsdale Cornish 1903 - Tugwell Brymer 1903 - Prescott & Co Cornhill 1918 - National Provincial & Union Bank of England est. 1919 - Sheffield 1919 - Bradford District 1920 - Northants Union 1920 - Coutts & Co 1924 - National Provincial Bank formed 1961 - Isle of Man Bank acquired by National Provincial 1962 -Share capital of District Bank acq by National Provincial 1970 - National Westminster Bank formed joining National Provincial Bank with Westminster Bank. Northern Bank Ltd 1824 - Established as Northern Banking Company. 1888 - acquired business of Ball & Co. 1970 - absorbed Belfast Banking Company Limited. Northern Rock Plc 1965 - Seaham Harbour (Londonderry) Permanent 1967 - Crook Equitable 1968 - Workington Permanent Benefit 1970 - Cockermouth Permanent Benefit 1971 - Crook District Permanent 1972 - Northumbria Permanent Benefit 1973 - Royal Arcade 1975 - Haltwhistle Permanent Benefit 1975 - Duneim 1975 - Prudential Investment 1975 - Wallsend Permanent 1976 - Cleveland Benefit 1977 - Elsecar, Hoyland & Wentworth Benefit 1977 - Preston Royal Permanent Benefit 1977 - West Derby 1977 - Star 1978 - National Safety Investment 1978 - Falkirk 1978 - East Liverpool Incorporated 1979 - Kidderminster Permanent 1979 - Deal & Walmer 1979 - Liverpool Charter 1980 - Walker & Byker Industrial Permanent 1980 - Lancashire 1981 - Stockport & County Permanent 1981 - Pioneer 1982 - Kilmarnock 1982 - Shields & Washington 1982 - Blyth & Morpeth District Permanent 1983 - Musselburgh 1985 - South Shields Sun Permanent 1985 - Hartlepool & District 1986 - Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows 1986 - United Kingdom 1986 - Wishaw Investment 1992 - Lancastrian 1993 - Surrey 1994 - North of England The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc 1836 - 1930 Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd 1864 - Dundee New Bank 1864 - Dundee Commercial Banking Co 1864 - Dundee Banking Co 1924 - Messrs Drummond 1930 - Bank of Englands Western branch 1930 - Clement Royds & Co 1930 - Hardcastle, Cross & Co 1930 - Heywood Brothers & Co 1930 - Sheffield & Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Co Ltd 1930 - Williams, Deacon & Co 1939 - Child & Co 1939 - Curries & Co 1939 - Dorrien, Magens, Mello & Co 1939 - Sir James Esdaile, Esdaile, Grenfell, Thomas & Co 1939 - Glyn,Mills & Co 1939 - Holt & Co 1939 - Ladbroke & Co 1939 - Lawrie & Co 1939 - Woodhead & Co 1941 - A Ruffer & Sons Ltd 1944 - Anglo-International Bank Ltd 1944 - British Overseas Bank Ltd 1957 - Western Bank of Scotland ( Few branches only) 1969 - Arbroath Banking Co 1969 - Bank of Glasgow 1969 - Caithness Banking Co 1969 - Commercial Banking Co of Aberdeen 1969 - Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd 1969 - London & Dublin Bank 1969 - The National Bank Ltd 1969 - National Bank of Scotland 1969 - National Commercial Bank of Scotland 1969 - Perth Union Banking Co 1969 - Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd (Wholly owned subsidiary from creation) 1982 - Lockerbie Savings Bank 1988 - Citizens Financial Group (USA) 1993 - Adam & Co Schroder & Co Ltd 1954 - J Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Ltd was formed 1994 - J Henry Schroder & Co Ltd name changed 2000 - Schroder & Co Ltd formed after sale of J Henry Schroder & Co Ltd to Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc., Schroder retained the banking business Standard Chartered Group 1853 - Queen Victoria granted charter of incorporation of The Bank Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. 1956 - Shortened name to The Chartered Bank 1962 - The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd shortened name to The Standard Bank Ltd 1969 - The Chartered Bank and The Standard Bank merged 1973 - The Hodge Group acquired 1985 - Operating bank of Standard Chartered PLC was established as Standard Chartered Bank Sun Bank Plc 1989 - Established as Confederation Bank Limited. 1994 - Name changed to Sun Bank plc 1997 - acquired Exeter Bank. Woolwich Plc 1942 - Gosport & Alverstoke 1943 - Guildford 1944 - Andover Mutual 1960 - Modern Permanent 1978 - Grays 1983 - Grangemouth 1984 - New Cross 1984 - London Grovesnor 1985 - North Kent 1986 - Property Owners 1988 - Gateway 1992 - Town & Country Yorkshire Bank Plc 1911 - Established as Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd 1959 - Name changed to Yorkshire Bank Ltd 1982 - Re-registered as Yorkshire Bank