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The English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited was an Australian bank founded in 1852 by

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and named English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank. Following a financial reconstruction in 1893 its business was renamed English, Scottish and Australian Bank Limited. Known as ES&A it merged with ANZ on 1 October 1970 to form Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.

History

ES&A opened its first Australian branch in

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in 1853. Australian banknotes were printed by the bank and issued at branches in Sydney,

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, and

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. In 1893 its business was renamed the English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited following a financial upheaval. It was one of 16 banks which supplied blank note forms to the

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in 1911, which were superscribed as redeemable in gold and issued as the first Commonwealth notes. The Commercial Bank of Tasmania and the London Bank of Australia were taken over in 1921 and the Royal Bank of Australia in 1927. Prominent

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n architect F. Kenneth Milne designed several buildings for the bank before 1929. On 1 October 1970 ES&A merged with the Australia and New Zealand Bank to form the

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Limited. At the time of the merger ES&A had a network of about 570 branches across Australia.

Esanda

Esanda was a consumer finance division of ES&A which began separate operations in 1955. Its name is an

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of ES&A. In 2015 ANZ sold Esanda to

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Executive leadership

Chairmen

Notable staff

Charles Wren became the accountant and branch inspector for South Australia in 1881. He moved to Melbourne in 1888 as inspector's accountant. He was appointed resident inspector in New South Wales in 1901, and became the bank's Australasian general manager in July 1909.

References

External links

English, Scottish & Australian Bank LimitedCompanies in Australia since 1901 (ASX)
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