Group    From 1829  To 1968

District Bank

Categories: Commerce

Founded as Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Name shortened to District Bank in 1924. 1962 acquired by the National Provincial Bank but traded separately until the 1968 merger with Westminster Bank.

Admitted to the Bankers Clearing House in 1862.

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District Bank

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Bankers Clearing House - 6

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Samuel Bourne Bevington

Samuel Bourne Bevington

VD, JP.  Son of James Bevington.   A member of the Bermondsey leather manufacturing dynasty and a philanthropist. Colonel commanding 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 18...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Albert E. Reed

Albert E. Reed

 Paper manufacturer and Weslian preacher.  Born Devon.  Established a newsprint manufacturing company in Kent in 1894.  By 1965 this had grown to be the Reed Group and in 1993 it merged to become R...

Person, Commerce, Religion

1 memorial
W. F. D. Smith, Lord Hambleden

W. F. D. Smith, Lord Hambleden

On his father's death in 1891 he became head of the family firm of W.H. Smith and Son and also took over as MP for the Strand Division, until 1910. Chairman of King's College Hospital. Became 2nd V...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

2 memorials

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Corporal Ernest Fulford

Corporal Ernest Fulford

Ernest Fulford was born on 5 July 1890 in Islington, London, the youngest of the three children of John Philip Fulford (1856-1938) and Isabelle Ann Fulford née Lee (1850-1895). His birth was regist...

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE.

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE.

Actress. Margaret Natalie Smith, known professionally as Maggie Smith, was born on 28 December 1934 in Ilford, Essex, the youngest of the three children of Nathaniel Smith (1902-1991) and Margaret ...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA

1 memorial
Charles D. Steel

Charles D. Steel

A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Giro & von Hoesch

Giro & von Hoesch

SW1, Carlton House Terrace, 9

This space, including the stylish garage ramp, was once the garden to number 9. The building's current occupants, The Royal Society, prov...

2 subjects commemorated
Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Poet and writer. Born 83 Maryon Road, Charlton. Best known poem "The Listeners" ("Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door ....).  Lived at: Bovill Road, Forest Hil...

Person, Poetry

5 memorials