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Union Bank of Australia Limited (1837 - 1951)

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1837
To
1951

Summary

Formed in 1837 the bank was first known as the Union Bank of Australia. In 1880 it became known as the Union Bank of Australia Ltd. 1951 saw the bank merging with the Bank of Australasia to form the Australia and New Zealand Bank Ltd.

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 1836 - 1841 Bank of South Australia Limited [I]
       1841 - 1868 South Australian Banking Company
             1828 - 1851 Convict Savings Bank
             1834 - 1837 Tamar Bank
             1835 - 1840 Bathurst Bank
             1840 - 1844 Archers Gilies & Company
             1868 - 1892 Bank of South Australia Limited [II]
                   1837 - 1951 Union Bank of Australia Limited
                         1951 - 1970 Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited
                               1970 - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

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Archival resources

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited Group Archive

  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group records; Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited Group Archive. Details

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, (formerly John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection)

  • Union Bank of Australia Limited records, 1893 - 1900; John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, (formerly John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection). Details

Published resources

Books

  • The Union Bank of Australia Limited [in New Zealand], Wellington, New South Wales, 1940, 21 pp. Details
  • October first, 1951: Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited in which are merged the Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia, London, 1951, 47 pp. Details
  • Butlin, S.J., Australia and New Zealand Bank; The Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia Limited, 1828-1951, Longmans Green, London, 1961, 459 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Broeze, Frank, 'Robert Brooks', in Appleyard, R.T. and Schedvin, C.B. (eds), Australian Financiers. Biographical Essays, Macmillan Company of Australia, South Melbourne, Victoria, 1988, pp. 34-51. Details

Journal Articles

  • Broeze, F., 'Business Biography and Economic History: Robert Brooks the Union Bank of Australia and the development of imperial finance 1837-1876', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 1996, pp. 64-88. Details
  • Merrett, D.T. and Seltzer, Andrew, 'Work in the financial services industry and worker monitoring: A study of the Union Bank of Australia in the 1920s', Business History, vol. 42, no. 3, 2000, pp. 133-152. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 11 December 1999, Last modified: 14 October 2010