Contents

  1. Preface
  2. PROLOGUE: It Must Now Necessarily be a Bank
  3. PART ONE: 1694–1815
  4. 1  Services to the Nation
  5. 2  A Great Engine of State
  6. 3  A Steady and Unremitting Attention
  7. 4  An Elderly Lady in the City
  8. PART TWO: 1815–1914
  9. 5  All the Obloquy
  10. 6  The Effects of Tight Lacing
  11. 7  Matters of Conduct and Behaviour
  12. 8  Money Will Not Manage Itself
  13. 9  Wonderfully Youthful in Spirit – Considering
  14. PART THREE: 1914–46
  15. 10  The Kipling Man
  16. 11  Look Busy Anyway
  17. 12  The Dogs Bark
  18. PART FOUR: 1946–97
  19. 13  Not a Study Group
  20. 14  Honest Money
  21. 15  Entering from Stage Right
  22. 16  Sunny Offs
  23. 17  Serious Misgivings
  24. 18  Welcome and Long Overdue
  25. POSTSCRIPT: You Just Don’t Know When
  26. Notes
  27. Acknowledgements
  28. A Note on the Author
  29. Index
  30. Plates Section
  31. Picture Credits
  32. Also available by David Kynaston