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P is for Peat. William Barclay Peat founded the accounting firm William Barclay Peat & Co. in London in 1870. M stands for Marwick. James Marwick founded the accounting firm Marwick, Mitchell & Co. with Roger Mitchell in New York City in 1897. G is for Goerdeler. Dr.
When William Barclay Peat was born on 15 February 1852, in St Cyrus, Kincardineshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Peat, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Barclay, was 22. He married Edith Roberts on 21 December 1873, in Hornsey, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters.
Sir William Barclay Peat CVO was an accountant and one of the founders of KPMG. Jobs. Edit Jobs Section. Number of Past Jobs 1.
Women were not allowed to take accountancy qualifications, but Sir William Peat successfully argued for the ICAEW to support admitting women as a condition of legal enforcement. He came up against fierce opposition who argued that women should have their own institute, or that by admitting women it would lower the prestige, and salaries, of the profession.
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Oct 22, 2013 · The firm’s history dates back to 1870 when William Barclay Peat joined an accounting firm in London and took it over, as William Barclay Peat & Co., in 1891. In 1877 accountancy firm Thomson McLintock opened an office inGlasgow. Meanwhile in 1917 Piet Klijnveld opened his accounting firm in Amsterdam.
What Peat was building then has defined us down the decades: a network of expert advisors, spanning the length and breadth of the UK. We were in the West Country from the firm's earliest days, helping great family businesses like Clark's Shoes and Fry's Chocolate.
