Moxon & Percival

Moxon & Percival (c.1781-1887), established in Towcester, was a past constituent of NatWest.

This private bank was established in about 1781. It originally traded under the name of its founder John Jenkinson, a local silk mercer and linen draper. It was also known as Towcester Old Bank.

Jenkinson died in 1815 and the bank was sold by his executors to John & Samuel Percival, bankers of Northampton. In 1836 when John & Samuel Percival transferred their Northampton bank to joint stock status, becoming Northamptonshire Union Bank, the Towcester business remained a separate private bank to avoid compromising the new joint-stock bank's right to issue banknotes.

In 1887, when trading as Moxon & Percival, the bank finally merged with Northamptonshire Union Bank.

Detailed list of name changes

• John Jenkinson from c.1781
• John and Samuel Percival in 1844
• John, Samuel and Frederick Samuel Percival in 1850
• Frederick Samuel Percival and John Mercer in 1852
• John Mercer, John Callis and Thomas Mercer in 1863
• John and Thomas Mercer in 1864
• Thomas Mercer, Henry Billington Whitworth and Owen Wallis in 1867
• Henry Billington Whitworth, Owen Wallis and Robert Henry Hewitt in 1875
• Owen Wallis and Robert Henry Hewitt in 1879
• Robert Henry Hewitt and William Moxon in 1882
• William Moxon and Frederick Samuel Percival in 1884

Also known as Towcester Old Bank.

Summary of our archive holdings

Our archival records of Moxon & Percival have the reference code MOX.

For help understanding words used here, check our glossary of banking record types (PDF 68 KB).

• cheques and cheque forms 1781-1887
• partners' correspondence re creation of Northamptonshire Union Bank 1836
• mutilated banknote indemnity 1865
• banknote 1877