| Code | DS/UK/208 |
| Corporate Name | Bank of England Registrar's Department |
| Dates | 1980 - 2004 |
| OtherFormsOfName | Accountant's Department (1694 - 1980) |
| Activity | The origins of the Registrar's Department can be traced back to the requirement in the 1694 Charter that a register be kept at the Bank of assignments and transfers in the Bank's capital stock. This duty fell on the First Accomptant and the department was known as the Accountant's Department until 1980, when the title Chief Accountant was changed to Chief Registrar and the name of the department to the Registrar's Department. The former title remained for certain legal duties.
The department was based at the Bank's New Change offices for much of the post-war period before relocating to Southgate House in Gloucester in 1991.
Under the Ashridge re-organisation in 1994, the Registrar's Department came under the Financial Stability Wing.
On 18 December 2004 the Registrar's Department was closed and the gilt registration business was taken over by Computershare. |
| Source | 9A225/1 - Ashridge, 6 December 1993 - 30 June 1994 |
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