Barclays
Following on from yesterday blog, Swansea Quakers
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| Silvanus Bevan Swansea Burgess |
This blog is about information about the grandson, of
Silvanus Bevan, Swansea Burgess.
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| Location of Plough Court Map Engraved for Thorton's New and Complete History and Survey of London and Westminster |
Bevan’s son, also Silvanus, apothecary. Silvanus established the pharmacy, Number
Two, Plough Court, Lombard Street. Silvanus
employed his brother Timothy.
Timothy Bevan, married Elizabeth Barclay, daughter of David
Barclay. They went of to have children including Silvanus and Joseph Gurney
Bevan
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| Plough Court 1715 |
Silvanus Bevan was born at the Pharmacy, Number Two, Plough
Court, 1743.
Lombard Street had become the centre of banking in London. 1728,
Quaker, John Freame and brother-in-law, Thomas Gould, started to trade during
1690 as goldsmith. 1728, they moved to larger
premises, 54 Lombard Street. At the time
people could not read or write, and to establish their business they hang a
sign, incorporating a black spread eagle (below).
It is this eagle that is still be used today.
John’s son, Joseph, took a more active role in the bank. John’s daughter, Sarah married James
Barclay. James became a partner within
the business. The two families were already
well connected, and bank became known as Freame and Barclay.
Joseph Freame died in 1766, it was his nephews, David, and
John Barclay, who inherited the bank. They had disassociated themselves from
their father’s linen business and were opposed to slavery. The bank was renamed during 1776 as “Barclay,
Bevan and Bening”.
The Bevan in the name was referring to David’s nephew
Silvanus Bevan. “Barclay, Bevan and
Bening” was developed as the Lombard Street node of a network of Quakers
country bankers, financing bridge and canals, including, Stockton and
Darlington Railway.
The British economy at this time was thriving, due to stable
financial institutions, but also to the lucrative slave trade. Liverpool merchants, involved in the slave
trade formed Heywood Banks, which used Barclay, Bevan and Bening
as their London agents. The bank became
indirectly involved in financing the slave trade despite reservations of the Quaker’s
parents involved in the slave trade.
Silvanus became a sleeping partner with Barclay and
Perkins brewery.
1797, Barclay, Bevan and Benning became Barclay,
Tritton and Bevan.
Silvanus first marriage, 1769, aged 16, to Isabella Wakefield.
The marriage only lasted 7 months, when Isabella died of a fever.
Silvanus second Louisa Kendall. Louisa was the daughter, Henry Kendall, a
banker of Lincoln’s Inn Field. She was
not a Quaker. Silvanus was expelled from
Society of Friends. From the marriage there were seven children.
Son David Bevan was a partner with the bank. However, Richard who also became a banker
joined in 1805, Brighton Union Bank, by a deed of co-partnership between
William Golding, James Browne, Nathaniel Hall, Richard Lashmar and Thomas
West. The bank became known as Hall,
Bevan, West and Bevans.
Silvanus died 1830.
1888, Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Co¸ merged with Ransom,
Bouverie and Co. Hall, Bevan, West and Bevans
was taken over by Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Ransom, Bouverie and Co during
1894. Following further amalgamations,
during 1896, the bank changed its name to Barclays and Co.
Finally, 1917, Barclays and Co changed its name to Barclays
Bank.
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| Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk |
David Bevan, married Favall Bourke Lee. After the marriage they honeymooned at his father’s
house, Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk.
The marriage produced seven children, including son, Robert
Cooper Lee Bevan.
Robert founded Christ Church, Cockfoster. David who died 1846 is buried here.
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| Christ Church, Cockfoster |
Awesome well done very interesting
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