Barclays
Subtitle: The Business of Banking, 16901996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521041003
Subjects: Banking; British Isles; Barclays Bank--History; History / Great Britain
First sentence: Barclays Bank was founded in April 1690, when 21-year old John Freame (later father-in-law of the eponymous Barclays) completed his seven-year apprenticeship and became a freeman of the city of London.