• Douglas, Heron & Company, also known as the Ayr Bank, was a Scottish bank with its head office at Ayr. It opened in November 1769 and folded in 1772 during...
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    Ayr (/ɛər/ AIR; Scots: Ayr; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. A former royal...
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    the Ayr Bank in 1772, in the crisis following the collapse of the London house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down. Henry Dundas was Governor of the Bank of...
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    increasing the supply of money, the bank of Douglas, Heron & Company, known as the "Ayr Bank", was established in Ayr, Scotland in 1769; however, after...
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    found along its banks, mainly concentrated around the town of Ayr. The name Ayr may come from a pre-Celtic word meaning "watercourse". Ayr could also be...
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    the Newton-on-Ayr Main Street to the Newton Mill or Malt Mill that was located on the bank of the River Ayr near where the New Bridge of Ayr is located....
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  • Scottish Historical Review. 46 (141) – via JSTOR. The Failure of the Ayr Bank 1772, H Hamilton Annals of Commerce (1805) D Macpherson The Scottish Town...
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  • Ayr (Somali: Cayr or Ceyr), Muhammad Madarkicis Hiraab is a Somali clan, part of the larger Habar Gidir Hawiye clan. The Ayr clan is the eldest Habargidir...
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    period was spent in India. He was one of the shareholders of the failed Ayr Bank of Douglas, Heron and Company which collapsed in the financial crisis of...
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  • seven bank holidays common to all jurisdictions: New Year's Day, Good Friday, the early May bank holiday, the Spring bank holiday, the Summer bank holiday...
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  • Neale, James, Fordyce and Downe (category Defunct banks of the United Kingdom)
    days after Fordyce fled, 22 significant banks, notably the Scottish Douglas, Heron & Co known as the Ayr Bank, and many smaller ones all stopped payments...
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    (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Ayr is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia...
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  • the influence of his noble brother-in-law. Drummond was a partner in the Ayr Bank, which crashed disastrously in 1772, but his fortune survived. In 1775...
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    Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772, analyses the collapse of the Ayr Bank in the Crisis of 1772. His 2017 book, Famine and Finance: Credit and the...
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    Features: Bank of Scotland Bridges Series". The Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers. Retrieved 10 September 2014. Bank of Scotland - £5 Polymer "Ayr, Alloway...
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    Dundas through an investment in Douglas, Heron & Company, also known as the Ayr Bank, which crashed in 1772. Numerous Scottish land owners were bankrupted in...
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    Scottish bills of exchange, were forced to declare insolvency. Also the Ayr bank collapsed on 24 June. The stoppage precipitated a crisis. Sir Richard Glyn...
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  • management and Lloyds Bank under the name Romanes Media in 2012. Newsquest acquired Romanes Media in 2015. Historical copies of the Ayr Advertiser, dating...
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    Bank holidays in Scotland are determined under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 and the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007. Unlike...
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  • of Douglas Castle begun by his uncle. However the 1772 collapse of the Ayr bank of Douglas, Heron & Company was a blow to his financial position. In 1795...
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  • River Ayr) Category C(S) 50121 Upload Photo Ballochmyle Street, Catrine, Ayr Bank House With Railings And Boundary Wall 55°30′18″N 4°20′08″W / 55.504941°N...
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  • assumed the name of Agnew. Robert Kennedy was ruined by the failure of the Ayr bank, and had to sell Pinmore and move to Edinburgh, where he died in 1790....
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  • The Belle Ayr mine is a coal mine located 18 miles southeast of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The mine is...
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    supper on 29 January 1802 in Alloway, but in 1803 it was discovered from the Ayr Parish records that James Currie had made a mistake and the correct date...
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    Kirkcudbright Stewartry, but financial difficulties after the collapse of the Ayr Bank forced him to stand down in 1774. He voted regularly in Parliament, but...
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    and Ayr. These included the Ship Bank in 1749 and the Arms Bank in 1750 in Glasgow. They would be joined by the Thistle Bank in 1761 and the Ayr Bank in...
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    in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. It is located on the north bank of the River Ayr, between Cumnock and Glenbuck on the A70. The Muirkirk & North Lowther...
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  • the lands of Muirsmill close to Dalquhran. Ruined by the collapse of the Ayr Bank in 1772, Lapraik had first to let and then to sell his estate; for several...
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  • origin of McGrigors which continues as an independent firm until 2012. Ayr Bank opens. Fort George completed. 2 May – John Malcolm, soldier, statesman...
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  • Mary Heron, the only surviving child of Patrick Heron, a founder of the Ayr Bank and MP for Kirkcudbright Stewartry. When her father died in 1803, she inherited...
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