Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747-1864
Details:
- Author(s) Munn, Charles W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 306pp; illus
- Publisher John Donald Publishers
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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See also the writer's doctoral thesis 'Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747-1864', 1976. Structured in three parts: 1] 'Rise and fall, 1747-1864' - 'Formative years, 1747-72' / 'Expanding system, 1772-93' / 'Growth in the war years, 1793-1810' / 'Beginnings of decline, 1810-25' / 'Eclipse and end, 1825-64'; 2] 'The business and its organisation' - 'The business' / 'The partners' / 'The staff' / 'The branches' / 'The correspondents'; 3] 'Financing the economy' - 'Business finance' / 'Finance of agriculture and fishing' / 'Finance of trade and transport' / 'Finance of industry' / 'Finance of local government and the public utilities'. Provides balance sheet data for: Aberdeen Banking Co, 1768-87; Arbroath Banking Co, 1826-43; Dundee Banking Co, 1765-1864; Dundee Commercial Banking Co - no 1, 1792-1801; Dundee New Bank, 1802-1838; Dundee New Bank - branch balance sheets, 1806-37; Dundee Commercial Banking Co - no 2, 1836-38; Ship Bank, 1752-61; Thistle Bank, 1786-92; Glasgow Banking Co, 1810-19; Greenock Banking Co, 1814-28; Montrose Banking Co, 1816-22; Paisley Union Banking Co, 1789, 1795-6, 1820, 1836; Perth United Banking Co, 1767-86; Perth Banking Co, 1788-9, 1830-57. Touches on most Scottish provincial banks