Berwick, Lechmere & Co.

The banking firm of Berwick Lechmere first appears in the London Gazette in 1844. The father-in-law of Sir Anthony Lechmere (q.v.) was Joseph Berwick, and the banking partnership relates to the two families. The firm is a predecessor of Lloyds Banking Group. Joseph Berwick founded Berwick & Co, known also as the Worcester Old Bank, in 1772 and Lechmere, a partner in Berwick & Co. from c. 1800, apparently merged his family bank of Lechmere & Co. with it in 1831.  

Joseph Berwick had been in a separate partnership with Henry Wakeman, Thomas Farley and Jacob Turner under the firm of Berwick, Wakeman, Farley and Turner of Kidderminster, bankers until his departure from the partnership in 1794.   

London Gazette 20398 29/10/1844 p. 3685; National Register of Archives GB/NNAF/C107433 Lloyds Banking Group.  

London Gazette 13751 10/2/1795 p. 153