1869: 17-year-old William Barclay Peat joins accountancy firm Robert Fletcher & Co. (London)
1877: accountancy firm Thomson McLintock opens an office in Glasgow (1)
1891: Robert Fletcher & Co. renamed William Barclay Peat & Co. (2) , after W. B. Peat becomes its head
1897: Marwick Mitchell & Co. (3) founded by James Marwick and Roger Mitchell in New York City
1917: Piet Klijnveld and Jaap Kraayenhof open Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. (4) in Amsterdam
1925: William Barclay Peat & Co. (2) and Marwick Mitchell & Co. (3) merge to form Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company (later known simply as Peat Marwick) (5)
1963: Main LaFrentz & Co. (6) formed by the merger of Main & Co and FW LaFrentz & Co.
1969: Thomson McLintock (1) and Main LaFrentz (6) merge to form McLintock Main LaFrentz International (7).
1979: Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. (4), McLintock Main LaFrentz (7) and Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft (Germany) form KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) (9)
(Dr. Reinhardt Goerdeler was chairman of Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft for many years, and later chairman of KPMG. He is credited with laying much of the groundwork for the KMG merger.)
1979: Main Lafrentz & Co. (7?) merge with Hurdman and Cranstoun to form Main Hurdman & Cranstoun (10).
1987: KMG (9) and Peat Marwick (5) join forces to form a firm called KPMG in most of the world (including the USA), but Peat Marwick McLintock in the UK
1990: KPMG and Peat Marwick McLintock settle on the common name KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock
1991: KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock renamed KPMG Peat Marwick
1999: KPMG Peat Marwick renamed KPMG
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