History
Familiarity with the Williams Deacon’s name conceals the reality that the dominant institution was the Manchester & Salford Bank. When the latter acquired the former in 1890 it changed its name to the cumbersome Williams Deacon & Manchester & Salford Bank only to shorten it to Williams Deacon’s Bank in 1901. The Bank was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1931.
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