mastermans

Updated: May 1, 2025

When it disappeared the ground was acquired by the Agra Bank which erected the present very handsome buildings, shortly after, as far as I remember, it amalgamated with the Masterman Banking Concern in London, and it was subsequently known as Agra and Mastermans Bank. The office formerly was where Gladstone Wyllie & Co. are now.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

The amalgamation, I think, did not prove so successful as was anticipated, and eventually Mastermans dropped out of the concern and the bank assumed its old title, and though it was in a sound enough position even up to the date of its liquidation, the management considered it prudent to draw in its horns a little and sold to Government for the office of the currency department the larger part facing Dalhousie Square.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century