Tufnell, Falkner & Co

This private bank was established in Bath by 1775 as Atwood, Abrahams, Collett, Salmon & Harris. Atwood was a surgeon; William Abrahams a clothier; Isaac Collett a wine merchant; John Salmon an insurance agent; and William Harris an ironmonger. It was called Tufnell, Stroud, Collett, Payne & Hope from 1810; Tufnell, Falkner & Falkner from 1812; and later Tufnell, Collett, Payne & Hope. It was also known as Bladud Bank.

In 1825 the firm of Tufnell, Collett, Payne & Hope was dissolved and restyled Tufnell, Collett & Co, separating it from Payne & Hope, Wells Bank (est. 1800; failed 1831), previously run by the same partners. The bank opened a branch in Chippenham in the 1830s and was subsequently known as Tufnell, Falkner & Co. The partners were Richard Falkner and Francis Henry Falkner when the bank was acquired by Stuckey’s Banking Co of Langport in 1841.

Published history

• A Jones, 'The Banks of Bath', Notes and Queries, 203, 1958

Our archive holdings

A summary list of our archival records of Tufnell, Falkner & Co can be found on the Archives Hub website. 

Summary of archive holdings elsewhere

• Somerset Archives and Local Studies: partnership agreements 1812-25 (Ref: DD/WM 435, 438-441)