Interesting history of the Bank of England . ############### http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2010/02/...f-england.html ############### You ask the question, Who Owns The Bank Of England? to one thousand Britons, and I kid you not, all of them will say that it is owned by the Government. They would be wrong. The Bank Of England was originally a private bank, which contracted to lend money to the British Government in a financial crisis. It was privately owned at its foundation and remained so until the post-war Labour government nationalised it in 1946. So it is owned by the government? No.