Metropolitan Bank (of England and Wales)
From Graces Guide
of 60, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C.
1866 Established as the Birmingham Banking Co., Ltd.[1]
1880 Renamed Metropolitan Bank. Absorbed Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Co (est 1834)
1889 Renamed Metropolitan and Birmingham Bank absorbing Staffordshire Joint Stock Bank, Royal Exchange Bank, and Cooper Purton and Sons (of Bridgnorth)
1892 Renamed Metropolitan and South Wales Bank, absorbing South Wales Union Bank
1893 Absorbed National Bank of Wales
By 1914 had branches in 151 towns in England and Wales as well as London and Birmingham offices.
1914 As Metropolitan Bank (of England and Wales) was absorbed by London City and Midland Bank
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