James & Charles Robinson & Co

This private bank was established in c.1804 as Moore & Co. It was also known as Mansfield Bank. After many partnership changes, by 1869 it was trading as James & Charles Robinson & Co. In 1870, following the death of James Robinson, the partners sold the business to Samuel Smith & Co, bankers of Nottingham. The Chesterfield branch of the Mansfield Bank, however, was acquired by Sheffield Banking Co of Sheffield in 1870.

Detailed list of name changes

• Moore & Co from c.1804
• Moore, Maltby, Evans & Middlemore by 1810
• Moore, Maltby, Evans, Middlemore & Maltby & Co by 1812
• Abney, Maltby & Coller by 1816
• Maltby & Robinson by 1823
• James Robinson by 1839
• Robinson & Broadhurst by 1842
• James & Charles Robinson & Co by 1869

Also known as Mansfield Bank.

Published histories

• J A S L Leighton-Boyce, Smiths the bankers 1658-1958 (London: privately printed by National Provincial Bank, 1958)

Summary of our archive holdings

Our archival records of James & Charles Robinson & Co have the reference code RBN.

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• banknote c.1816
• cheque form n.d.
• deeds of copartnership 1832-43
• partners’ private ledger 1853-67