Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Glynn, Mills, Currie and Co

From Graces Guide
1898.

of Lombard Street, London

1864 Glyn, Mills and Co acquired the business of Curries and Co, and was restyled Glyn, Mills, Currie and Co.

1885 Registered as a joint-stock company, the first private bank to publish a half-yearly balance sheet.

1890 The bank played a major role in preventing the collapse of merchant bankers Baring Brothers, thereby saving a number of London's financial institutions from ruin. By that time the bank had established many international links and was handling share issues for major companies and governments at home and abroad.

1923 Took over Holt and Co, after which the firm was renamed Glyn, Mills, Currie, Holt and Co

1924 Acquired Child and Co, after which the firm was known as Glyn, Mills and Co.

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