Barclays
Subtitle: The Business of Banking, 1690-1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780521790352
Subjects: Banking; Economic history; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; 20th century; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain; Barclays Bank International; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; Africa; British Isles; Europe; The Americas; History; Banks & Banking; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Barclays Bank--History; Philosophy / Logic; Banks and banking
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.