Barclays Appoints Kingman to Succeed Gillies as Chair of UK Bank

Barclays Plc has appointed John Kingman to replace Crawford Gillies as chair of Barclays UK, one of a number of board changes the lender is making as two of its long-standing directors step down.

Kingman, who is chair of Legal & General Group Plc and whose former roles include positions at the UK Treasury and Rothschild, will join the board as a non-executive director and become chair of the group’s ring-fenced bank from June 1, the lender said in a statement Monday. Gillies is retiring after nine years.