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The last private English banknotes were issued in 1921 by Fox, Fowler and Company, a Somerset bank, [23] [28] when it was bought out by Lloyds Bank. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Under the terms of the Bank Charter Act 1844, the bank lost the legal right to issue banknotes when it merged with Lloyds, and the Bank of England became the sole note-issuing bank in ...
An example of a provincial English banknote: a £1 note issued in 1814 by the Gloucester Old Bank. Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes.
Main articles: Banknotes of the pound sterling and Bank of England note issues. Note: The description of banknotes given here relates to notes issued by the Bank of England. Three banks in Scotland and four banks in Northern Ireland also issue notes, in some or all of the denominations: £1, £5, £10, £20, £50, £100.
The Bank of England has set a deadline of September 30, 2022, for when the old paper notes will be withdrawn from legal tender.
Bank Act of 1844. The Bank Charter Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 32), sometimes referred to as the Peel Banking Act of 1844, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed under the government of Robert Peel, which restricted the powers of British banks and gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England.
A banknote or bank note [1] – also called a bill (North American English) or simply a note – is a type of paper money that is made and distributed ("issued") by a bank of issue, payable to the bearer on demand.
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As provincial banking companies merged to form larger banks, they lost their right to issue notes, and the English private banknote eventually disappeared, leaving the bank with a monopoly of note issues in England and Wales. The last private bank to issue its own banknotes in England and Wales was Fox, Fowler and Company in 1921. [117]