Collection of Scottish Banking

Includes records from the following banks: Banking Company of Aberdeen, Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, British Linen Bank, Caledonian Bank, City of Glasgow Bank, Central Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, Commercial Bank of Scotland, Douglas Heron & Co (Ayr Bank), Dundee New Bank, Dundee Savings Bank, Dundee Union Bank, Glasgow Banking Company, Glasgow Union Bank, Kirkcaldy & District Bank, National Bank of Scotland, North of Scotland Bank, North of Scotland Town & Country Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Ship Bank, Thistle Bank, Union Bank of Scotland, Western Bank of Scotland, Williams Deacon's Bank.

• Administrative records 1696-1973
• Financial records 1850s-1973
• Plans 1845-1858
• Staff records 1899-1906
• Photographs 1970s

Sydney George Checkland was born in 1916  in Ottawa, Canada. He was educated at the Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottowa and Birmingham University. During the Second World War he served in the British and Canadian Forces. After the end of the war he lectured at Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, England and was Lecturer in History at Trinity College before becoming Professor of Economic History at Glasgow University in 1957  . In the early 1970s  he wrote Scottish Banking: A History 1695-1973 and it was as a result of this work that the bulk of the material in this collection was assembled. He retired in 1982  and died in 1986  .

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received.

No access without the written permission of the bank concerned (or its successor). Apply in the first instance to Glasgow University Archive Services.

Unknown (GB 248 UGD 132 : GB 248 UGD 139)

Sydney Checkland : Professor of Economic History, Glasgow University (GB 248 UGD 129)

Digital file level list available in searchroom.

Manual file level list available at the National Register of Archives in Edinburgh (NRA(S) 3089 - GB 248 UGD 129; NRA(S)2477 - GB 248 UGD 132; NRA(S)2484 - GB 248 UGD 139) and London (GB 248 UGD 25595 - GB 248 UGD 132)

No known copies

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Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents

This material has been appraised in line with normal procedures.

GB 248 UGD 094 : Banking Collection (1795-1927); deposited by the Bank of Scotland in 1988 (ACCN099) was deaccessioned to the Lloyds Banking Group on December 3rd, 2012.

Unknown (GB 248 UGD 132 : GB 248 UGD 139)

Received directly from creator (GB 248 UGD 129)

Accruals possible

GB 248 UGD 037 Records of Campbell & Lamond

GB 248 DC 112 Records of Lumsden of Arden

See source list on Banking and Finance

Checkland, Sydney,Scottish Banking. A History 1695-1973 (Glasgow & London, 1975)

Mainly photocopies. Originals held by Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, Clydesdale Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland.