The
Trustee Savings Bank (
TSB) was a British
financial institution. Trustee savings banks originated to accept
savings deposits from those with moderate means. Their
shares were not traded on the
stock market but, unlike with
mutually held
building societies, depositors had no voting rights; nor did they have the power to direct the financial and managerial goals of the organisation. Directors were appointed as
trustees (hence the name) on a voluntary basis. The first trustee savings bank was established by
Reverend Henry Duncan of
Ruthwell in
Dumfriesshire for his poorest
parishoners in 1810 with its sole purpose being to serve the local people in the community . Between 1970 and 1985, the various trustee savings banks in the United Kingdom were amalgamated into a single institution named
TSB Group plc, which was floated on the
London Stock Exchange. In 1995, the TSB merged with
Lloyds Bank to form
Lloyds TSB, at that point the largest bank in the UK by market share and the second-largest (to
HSBC, which had taken over the Midland Bank in 1992) by market capitalisation.