Commercial Bank of Scotland, Foundeded in Edinburgh

Sir Samuel Ferguson, Celtic scholar, born

Rev Henry Duncan opened the worlds first savings bank in Ruthwell, near Dumfries.

Commercial Bank of Scotland, foundeded in Edinburgh

The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. was a Scottish commercial bank. It was founded in Edinburgh in 1810, and obtained a royal charter in 1831. It grew substantially through the 19th and early 20th centuries, until 1958, when it merged with the National Bank of Scotland to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland. Ten years later the National Commercial Bank merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland.