Westminster Bank Westminster Bank Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital. For
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet (13 June 1711 – 1 January 1773) was a British banker and politician, who together with Joseph Vere and Thomas Hallifax founded the Bank of Vere, Glyn & Hallifax, which evolved into Williams & Glyn's Bank. He served as Sheriff of London in 1753 and as Lord Mayor of London in 1758. He was also Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1758 to 1768 and for Coventry from 1768 to 1773. In 1758 he was created a baronet, of Ewell in the County of Surrey.