Goslings Bank

Goslings Bank was a historical English private bank, located since at least 1743 at No. 19 Fleet Street, London, and identified to customers by a hanging signboard depicting three squirrels.

The bank originated in the business of Henry Pinckney, a goldsmith-banker who began trading in about 1650 at the sign of the Three Squirrels. The first Gosling partner entered the business in 1742. After becoming Goslings and Sharpe it was a constituent bank in the Barclays & Co merger of 1896 with 18 other banks .[1][2] The name of this well-known banking family is perpetuated in parentheses on all Barclays cheques relating to accounts held at the Fleet Street branch.

References

  1. Ackrill, Margaret; Leslie Hannah (2001). Barclays: the business of banking, 1690-1996. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-521-79035-2.
  2. Essie, Rackley; Jeffrey E.Walker (2004). Business cheques with an extra. Bristol: University of Bristol.


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