Management
 
1920 & 1921  William Adlington Cadbury  Opened Stirchley* branch
 1922
 David Davis  Opened Small Heath & Selly Oak branches
 1923
 Sir David Davis  
 1924
 Thomas Oswald Williams  Opened Hockley branch; Committee Member 1920 to 1922
 1925 & 1926  Percival Bower, MBE
 Became Chairman of the Bank after the death in office of C T Appleby on May 13th 1926
 Opened Lozells, Saltley, Spring Hill, Erdington, Ward End, Bordesley Green, Moseley*,
                 Alum Rock*, Springfield* & Sandwell* branches
 Committee Member 1926 to 1937 & 1939 to 1942; Chairman 1926 to 1952
 1927 & 1928  Alfred Henry James, CBE
 Opened Nechells, Witton, Hall Green & Selly Park branches
 Committee Member 1931
 1929
 Wifred Byng Kenrick  Opened Sherlock Street, Heybarnes & Bearwood branches
 1930
 Martin Lewis Lancaster  Opened Short Heath, Horse Fair & Stechford branches
 1931
 Walter Willis Saunders  Opened Wheeler Street & Perry Common branches
 1932
 John Bedford Burman  Opened Pype Hayes branch
 1933 & 1934
 Horace Edward Goodby  Opened Brandwood branch
 1935 & 1936
 Samuel John Grey  Opened Longbridge branch
 1937
 Harold Roberts  Opened Quinton & Kingstanding branches
 1938
 Ernest Robert Canning  Committee Member 1943 to 1945
 1939
 James Crump  Opened Newtown Row branch
 1940
 Theodore Beal Pritchett, MC  
 1941
 Wilfrid Martineau
 Committee Member 1934 to 1940 
 Father of A D Martineau - Chairman of BMB 1967 to 1970 & BMTSB 1978 to 1979
 1942
 Norman Tiptaft  Committee Member 1920 to 1923
 1943
 Walter Samuel Lewis  Committee Member 1938
 1944
 Lionel George Helmore Alldridge  Committee Member 1941 to 1942
 1945
 William Theophilus Wiggins-Davis  
 1946
 Alan Stewart Giles  
 1947
 Albert Frederick Bradbeer  
1948 & 1949
 John Charles Burman  
 1950
 Hubert Humphreys  
 1951
 Alfred Paddon-Smith  
 1952
 Ralph Cyril Yates   Committee Member 1934 to 1935 & 1961 to 1966
 1953
 William Tegfryn Bowen  
 1954
 George Henry Wilson Griffith
 Opened Great Barr* branch
 Committee Member 1936 to 1945; 1947 to 1952 & 1954 to 1966; Chairman 1944 to 1946
 1955
 Joseph Reginald Balmer  Committee Member 1946 & 1947; 1949 to 1953 & 1955 to 1973; Chairman 1952
 1956
 Arthur Lummis Gibson  
 1957
 Ernest William Apps  
 1958
 John Joseph Grogan, MBE  
 1959
 Donald Johnstone  
 1960
 John Henry Lewis, OBE  Committee Member 1972 to 1973
 1961
 Garnet Benjamin Boughton  
 1962
 Eric Edward Mole, OBE  
 1963
 Ernest Walter Horton  
 1964
 Louis Glass  
 1965
 Frank Leslie Price  
 1966
 George Corbyn Barrow  
 1967
 Harold Edward Tyler  Opened Maypole branch; Committee Member 1967 to 1973
 1968
 James Stephen Meadows, OBE  
 1969
 Charles Valentine George Simpson  Committee Member 1946 to 1947
 1970
 Neville Bruce Alfred Bosworth  
 1971
 Stanley Bleyer  Opened Castle Vale branch
 1972
 Victor Ernest Turton  
 1973
 Frederick Thomas Duncan Hall  
 1974
 Marjorie Alice Brown, JP  Committee Member & Chairman 1972
 1975
 Eric James Eames, JP  
 1976
 Albert Leslie Samuel Jackson, JP  Opened Boldmere branch
Source of data in first two columns: www.birmingham.gov.uk
Lord Mayors: 1920 to 1976
ex-officio members of the Bank's Committee of Management
(Lord Mayors of Birmingham: 1920 to 1974
Birmingham City Council Lord Mayors 1973 to 1976)
The Lord Mayors of Birmingham (and their spouses) were frequently requested to perform the official opening
ceremonies of new branches. Branches opened by Mayors are detailed below,
although some ceremonies (marked*) took place outside their Mayoralty.
 
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