Tufnell, Falkner & Co

This private bank was established in Bath by 1775 as Atwood, Abrahams, Collett, Salmon & Harris. Atwood was a surgeon; William Abrahams a clothier; Isaac Collett a wine merchant; John Salmon an insurance agent; and William Harris an ironmonger. It was called Tufnell, Stroud, Collett, Payne & Hope from 1810; Tufnell, Falkner & Falkner from 1812; and later Tufnell, Collett, Payne & Hope. It was also known as Bladud Bank.

In 1825 the firm of Tufnell, Collett, Payne & Hope was dissolved and restyled Tufnell, Collett & Co, separating it from Payne & Hope, Wells Bank (est. 1800; failed 1831), previously run by the same partners. The bank opened a branch in Chippenham in the 1830s and was subsequently known as Tufnell, Falkner & Co. The partners were Richard Falkner and Francis Henry Falkner when the bank was acquired by Stuckey’s Banking Co of Langport in 1841.

Published history

• A Jones, 'The Banks of Bath', Notes and Queries, 203, 1958

Summary of our archive holdings

Our archival records of Tufnell, Falkner & Co have the reference code TUF.

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Financial records

• private ledger 1825-34
• private account book incl. balance sheets 1826-41
• cash books 1826-44
• notes re nature and extent of business 1838
• amalgamation papers 1838-43

Customer records

• banker’s draft 1814
• deposit receipts 1816
• bills of exchange 1821, 1838
• papers re customer accounts 1827-41
• list of bad and doubtful debts 1834
• securities, railway company share certificates 1836
• safe custody receipt 1836
• cheque form c.1840
• list of accounts 1841

Property records

• furniture and fittings valuation 1841
• invoice for gas supply 1841

Note issue records

• banknotes 1825-39
• drafts and notes circulation book 1834-43
• indemnities re mutilated notes 1836-41
• papers re note circulation 1841-3
• outstanding drafts and notes list 1842
• outstanding notes book 1843

Summary of archive holdings elsewhere

• Somerset Archives and Local Studies: partnership agreements 1812-25 (Ref: DD/WM 435, 438-441)