The practice was started by Joseph Dwyer who began work at Deniliquin, but had moved to Albury by 1869. In 1876 Valentine Flood Nagle purchased the practice and conducted it under the name Valentine F Nagle. He died in 1893 and Frederick John Belbridge came from Parramatta under an arrangement to carry on the practice until Nagle's son Valentine Flood Nagle II qualified.

Belbridge conducted it under his own name and, when VF Nagle II was admitted in 1898, they entered into the partnership known as Belbridge and Nagle. This continued until 1903 when it was dissolved and they thereafter practised as FJ Belbridge and as V Flood Nagle respectively. When VF Nagle II retired, another son of VF Nagle I, Charles Rupert Nagle, took over the practice and conducted it as V Flood Nagle and Nagle. When he in turn retired in 1966 he sold it to Belbridge Hague & Co, the then name of the Belbridge practice, thus reuniting the practice which had divided early in the century.

Alfred Charles Hake had entered partnership with Fred Belbridge in about 1930 practising under the name FJ Belbridge and Hake. In 1933 Doug Hague joined the partnership, which then became known as Belbridge Hake and Hague. Fred Belbridge died in 1932 and Chas Hake died in 1940. In 1946 HJ ("Did") Simpson and Kevin Tracy joined Doug Hague in partnership and the firm then became known as Belbridge Hague & Co.

Since that time a number of people have joined the partnership and then later retired. They include Noel Stephens, David Luxon, Charles Stitz, Chris Welsh, Tony Brandt, David Kotthoff, Derek Norquay and Peter Simpson. The current principal is Rob Meers.