Francis (Frank) Augustus Bevan (17 January 184031 August 1919) was a British heir and banker. He served as the chairman of

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, a British multi-national financial institution, serving from 1896 to 1916.

Early life

Francis Augustus Bevan was born on 17 January 1840,''Christ Church Cockfosters: 125 years''.
Franey & Co., London, c. 1964. p. 7. the second son of

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (8 February 180922 July 1890) was a British banker. He served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank. Early life Robert Cooper Lee Bevan was born on 8 February 1809 at Hale End, Walthamstow. He was the eldest son of fellow ...

(1809-1890). Bevan was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, a private boarding school in North West London.

Career

He became a partner in Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Co in 1859, and eventually succeeded his father as senior partner. In 1896, Barclays merged with a number of mostly private banks to become a joint stock enterprise. Bevan was the last senior partner of the private bank and the first chairman of the new bank, Barclay and Company Limited. Under his leadership, Barclays became one of ''the Big Five'' UK banks. He remained a director until his death. He also served as

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, a JP, and as

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Personal life

He was married and widowed three times. On 22 July 1862, he married Elizabeth Marianne Russell, the daughter of the politician

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and Isabella Clarisa Davies. On 19 April 1866, he married Constance Hogg, the daughter of the politician

Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baronet (1790 – 27 May 1876) was an Irish-born businessman, lawyer and politician and Chairman of the East India Company. Background and education Hogg was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of Will ...

and Mary Claudine Swinton. In 1875, he married Maria Trotter. Until 1890, he lived at

Ludgrove Hall Ludgrove Hall is an historic manor house in the parish of Monken Hadley, formerly within the county of Middlesex. Today the property has been overtaken by the suburbs of North London, and is situated on Games Road, Cockfosters, on the edge of ...

, Cockfosters. Following his father's death in 1890, he moved to nearby

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. He was the

churchwarden A churchwarden is a lay official in a parish or congregation of the Anglican Communion or Catholic Church, usually working as a part-time volunteer. In the Anglican tradition, holders of these positions are ''ex officio'' members of the parish b ...

Christ Church, Cockfosters Christ Church, Cockfosters, is a conservative evangelical Anglican church in Chalk Lane, in the north London suburb of Cockfosters. It is about 200m from Cockfosters Underground station. History The church was founded by Robert Cooper Lee Bevan ...

, the church founded by his father. His third son, Raymond Francis Bevan, was a cleric, vicar of St Lawrence, Thanet from 1907 to 1921. His fourth son, Gerard Lee Bevan, was a leading financier and infamous fraudster.

Death

Bevan died in 1919.

References

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British chairpersons of corporations Chairmen of Barclays High Sheriffs of Middlesex English people of Welsh descent Churchwardens Ludgrove Members of Middlesex County Council 19th-century British businesspeople