Halifax Commercial Banking Company Limited
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The Halifax Commercial Banking Company Limited was
established in 1802 by Swaine Brothers & Company.
In 1836, it became the Halifax Commercial Banking Company
Limited in order to purchase the business of
Rawdon Briggs & Sons.
There were 172 partners.
The directors included
Rawdon Briggs [Chairman],
William Briggs [Deputy Chairman],
Jonathan Akroyd and members of the Akroyd family,
members of the Crossley family,
William Garlick,
George Pollard,
John Holland,
Royston Oliver,
and
George Binns.
The partners in 1853 are shown
below
It was one of the last joint-stock banks to survive.
In 1919, the bank merged with the Bank of Liverpool &
Martins Bank.
In 1969, it merged with Barclays Bank
There were several branches of the bank in the district:
See
James Booth,
Frederick Hardcastle,
T. H. Morris and
Old Mansion House
| Halifax Commercial Banking Company Limited : Partners [1853] |
In 1836, the Halifax Commercial Banking Company became
the Halifax Commercial Banking Company Limited.
In 1853, the partners included
- Thomas Ackroyd of Warley – shopkeeper
- Edward Akroyd of Halifax – merchant & manufacturer
- Henry Akroyd of Halifax – merchant & manufacturer
- Jonathan Akroyd of Halifax – administrator of
Edward Akroyd and Henry Akroyd
- Henry Ambler of Ovenden – worsted manufacturer
- John Ambler of Warley – worsted spinner
- John James Appia of Halifax – gentleman
- John Appleyard of Warley – merchant
- John Aspinall of Brighouse – stone merchant
- William Barraclough of near Halifax – merchant
- Ely Bates of Halifax – merchant
- Robert Bell of la Rochelle
- David Binns of Halifax – linen draper
- William Birtwhistle of Halifax – bookseller
- Henry Briggs of Outwood Hall – coal merchant
- Henry Currer Briggs of Outwood Hall – gent
- Rawdon Briggs of Birstwith – gent
- William Briggs of Halifax – bank director
- Sophia Brigham of Loughborough – spinster
- Mrs Lydia Camm of Clifton – widow
- Daniel Carter of Lightcliffe – worsted manufacturer
- Thomas Cockcroft of New York – woolstapler
- Elizabeth Craven of Halifax – widow
- William Craven of Halifax – solicitor
- John Dearden of Halifax – joiner
- William Dearden of Halifax – Executors of
- Sarah Dennison of Lee Bridge – spinster
- Henry de Paiva of Heckmondwike – merchant
- Leonard Duncan of Halifax – woollen draper
- Nathan Ellis of Norwood – shopkeeper
- Samuel Empsall of Halifax – butcher
- Robert Flather of Halifax – mechanic
- John Gelson of Halifax – thread manufacturer
- John Greenwood of Cragg – cotton spinner
- William Greenwood of Cragg – cotton spinner
- William Greenwood of Oxenhope – worsted manufacturer
- Elizabeth Greenup of Nayland – spinster
- James William Gregory of Halifax – grocer
- Richard Reynolds Gregory of Rastrick – gent
- Thomas Gregory of Shelf – worsted manufacturer
- John Grimshaw of Horsham – gent
- Henry Haigh of The Hough – stone merchant
- John Haigh of Godley Cottage – stone merchant
- Frederick Hardcastle of Halifax – banker
- Jane Hardcastle of Halifax – spinster
- Susan Hitchin of Liverpool – spinster
- Ward Dyson Hitchin of Halifax – solicitor
- John Holdsworth of Birkby Lane – woolstapler
- Joseph Holdsworth of Halifax – Executors of
- Thomas Hodgson of Halifax – surgeon
- John Holt of Halifax – corn dealer
- James Holt of Lee Bridge – dyer
- Thomas Holt of Lee Bridge – dyer
- Thomas Hughes of Guernsey and Adam
Lowe of Halifax
- Hannah Hughes of Guernsey – spinster
- Thomas Hughes of Guernsey – gent
- John Ingham of Halifax – deceased
- John Ingham Jnr of Halifax – salesman
- Mary Jackson of Halifax – widow
- George Kershaw of Halifax – Executors of
- Cathe King of Loughborough – spinster
- William Lister of Halifax – worsted spinner
- Richard Kershaw Lumb of Cheltenham – gent
- Arthur Wellesley Lenox of Wavetree, Liverpool –
merchant
- Thomas Moore of Godby Lane – gentleman
- Arthur Morris of Triangle – worsted spinner
- William Morris of Triangle – worsted spinner
- George Naylor of Halifax – card maker
- Matthew Paterson of Halifax – gentleman
- George Thomas Pollard of Boulogne – gentleman
- George Pollard of Halifax – merchant
- John Rhodes Ralph of Halifax
- Thomas Ramsden of Halifax – woolstapler
- Thomas Ramsden of Halifax – Executors of
- David Ramsden of Jersey – gentleman
- Christopher Rawdon of Liverpool – merchant
- James Rawdon of Liverpool – merchant
- Christopher Taylor Rigg of Halifax – corn dealer
- Joshua Rhodes of Low Moor – innkeeper
- Charles Richard Ronayne of Leeds – MD
- Thomas Robinson of Hull – hosier
- Aquilla Edward Royston of Halifax – wire manufacturer
- Rachel Sharp of Richmond – spinster
- Samuel Smith of Bradford – dyer
- James Stansfeld of Halifax – County Court Judge
- Margaret Stansfeld of Flockton – coal owner
- Thomas Sugden of Brighouse – corn dealer
- Thomas Richard Sutcliffe of Brighouse – corn dealer
- Grace Swain of Farrar Mill – Executors of
- Edward Swaine of Gomersal – merchant
- Joseph Swaine of Gomersal – merchant
- Rev James Thompson of Cublington, Buckinghamshire
- William Thompson of Leeds – gentleman
- John Thwaite of Halifax – butcher
- James Tonge of Watson Mill – corn dealer
- Rev William Turner of Halifax – Dissenting minister
- Hannah Wainhouse of Luddenden – spinster
- Eliza Walsh of Halifax – spinster
- John Walsh of Halifax – solicitors' clerk
- Barnabas Walton of Exeter – gentleman
- Samuel Washington of Lightcliffe – land agent
- George Webster of Halifax – grocer
- John Wheelwright of Rishworth – corn dealer
- John Aked Whiteley of Sheffield – hatter
- David Wilcock of Midgley – worsted manufacturer
- John Wilson of Ovenden – worsted manufacturer
- Ann Wright of Halifax – spinster
- John Yates of Leeds – manufacturer
- Charlotte and Christopher Rawdon of
Liverpool – Executors of Ellen Briggs
- Richard Kershaw Lumb of Cheltenham – Executor of
William Kershaw
- William Holland and Thomas Theodore Ormerod –
Executors of John Holland
See
Halifax Mechanics' Institution Penny Savings Bank,
Frederick Hardcastle,
T. H. Morris,
William Morris,
Old Mansion House,
Robert Swaine and
John Graham Wheelwright
©
Malcolm Bull
2023
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