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    The Leith Banking Company (also referred to as the Leith Bank) was a bank based in the town of Leith (now part of Edinburgh), Scotland, which opened in...
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  • List of banks in Scotland (category Lists of companies of the United Kingdom by industry)
    Bank Commercial Bank of Scotland Douglas, Heron & Company Glasgow and Ship Bank Leith Banking Company National Bank of Scotland National Commercial Bank...
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    The first Leith Sugar House was established in 1677 by Robert Douglas and partners. Between 1667 and 1701 four sugar boiling and rum-distilling enterprises...
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    held a separate PRA banking licence) was renamed The Royal Bank of Scotland, with Adam and Company continuing as an RBS private banking brand until 2022...
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    Clydesdale Bank plc (category Companies based in Glasgow)
    advertisement appeared for a new joint stock banking company in Glasgow, the Clydesdale Banking Company. It was to be "chiefly a local bank – having few...
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  • War II, when it failed to keep pace with a rapidly changing investment banking industry, in which Kuhn, Loeb's old-world, genteel ways, did not seem to...
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  • Samuel Leith Tomkins, in February 1879. Tomkins married Jane Walker Leith (died 1848, aged 37), sister of John Farley Leith; reciprocally Leith married...
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    Bernard Street, Edinburgh (category Leith)
    Other buildings include the premises of Leith Merchants Club and the former home of the Leith Banking Company. Today, the buildings of Bernard Street...
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    Barclays (category Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange)
    International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces its origins to the goldsmith banking business established in the City...
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    2014, he married Rosemary Leith at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace in London. Leith is a Canadian Internet and banking entrepreneur and a founding...
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    agricultural land sloping down to a port several miles away (respectively, Leith and Piraeus). Intellectually, the Scottish Enlightenment, with its humanist...
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    including: Lloyds Banking Group (owners of HBOS); the Government owned Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Life. This list includes notable companies with primary...
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    Commercial Bank of Scotland (category Companies based in Edinburgh)
    within twelve months it was "doing a fair proportion of the Banking business in Edinburgh and Leith", and had five branches outside the City. Within two years...
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  • (1994-11-27). "How To Get A Man Pregnant". The New York Times. William Leith (2008-04-10). "Pregnant men: hard to stomach?". Telegraph. Archived from...
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    Swedish king Gustav III, as thanks for the actual vessel, Experiment of Leith, that Miller sent him, despatched Miller seeds of the swede in a magnificent...
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  • Weir Group (category Engineering companies of Scotland)
    Viscount Weir Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin Thomas Leith List of oilfield service companies "Annual Results 2023" (PDF). Weir Group. Retrieved 29 February...
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    Town to Canonmills. The tunnel was built in 1847 as part of the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway. Its southern end was demolished in the 1980s during...
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    Parliament; the Company of Scotland devises the Darien Scheme 1697: Execution of Thomas Aikenhead for blasphemy 1698: Five ships set sail from Leith on 14 July...
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    New Town and city centre has traditionally been home to many companies, in the banking, finance and legal professions, but modern needs have caused many...
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  • reported, after the 76m-long RV Petrel research vessel tips over at a dock in Leith. Boris Johnson gives evidence to the cross-party Privileges Committee, relating...
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    Botswana – Government portal". Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Leith, J. Clark (2005). Why Botswana Prospered. McGill-Queen's University Press...
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    theaustralian.com.au. Fund, Leith van OnselenLeith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB; Treasury, MB Super Leith has previously worked at the Australian;...
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    Wooing. In 1560, the Treaty of Edinburgh brought an end to the Siege of Leith and recognized the Protestant Elizabeth I as Queen of England.: 112  The...
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  • College Dublin. Retrieved November 16, 2021. Liu, Haoyu; Patras, Paul; Leith, Douglas J. (October 6, 2021). "Android Mobile OS Snooping By Samsung, Xiaomi...
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  • com was initially the trading name of eTourism Ltd, a private limited company set up by a public-private partnership. In 2003 the IT services group SchlumbergerSema...
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    for women by a woman. April 2 – The first Rules of golf are drawn up at Leith, for the first golf competition. April 27 – Siege of Villafranca (1744):...
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    XIV". National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday, 11 November 2006. Leith, Sam. "Literary Lazing". The Daily Telegraph, 10 July 2007. Talese, Nan...
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  • Scoticarum Historia, writing that Mary, Queen of Scots embarked on a boat at Leith to sail to Alloa Tower in June 1566, crewed by "William and Edmond Blackadder...
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  • of extending from Broomielaw in Glasgow over the G&GR to Edinburgh and Leith; the connection to sea-going shipping was paramount. In 1830 the railway...
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  • Compass Group (category British companies established in 1941)
    Hospitality Kimco Lackmann Culinary Services Leisure Support Services Leith's Levy Restaurants Medirest Morrison Management Specialists Omega Security...
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