Peat Marwick McLintock

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Click here to view the simplified family tree for the firm of Peat Marwick McLintock which is reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Boys and Accountancy magazine. This tree was originally published in the September 1989 issue of Accountancy (p82).

Amendments

Thomson McLintock 1877 not Thomson, McLintock 1877
Thomson McLintock & Co 1901 not Thomson, McLintock & Co 1901

Note 2 Accountants' Incorporation Association not Accountants' Incorporation association

The early history of Armitage & Norton is: Charles Payne c 1868; Chadwick & Armitage pre-1879; Armitage, Clough & Co 1880 (Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: A Guide to Historical Records, Wendy Habgood (ed), Manchester University Press, 1994).

Thomas, Wade & Guthrie started in practice together in 1875 either under that name or as Thomas, Wade, Guthrie & Co; the latter name had certainly been adopted by 1877 (The Accountants' Directory 1877, Alfred C Harper (ed), Williams & Strahan, 1877).

Update

Peat Marwick McLintock became KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock in early 1990 to reflect its international network of firms.

KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock became KPMG Peat Marwick from 1 October 1991 (Accountancy, July 1991, p.17).

KPMG Peat Marwick became KPMG in February 1995 (Accountancy, March 1995, p.25).

Compiled and revised by Peter Boys, BA FCA, February 2003