Entries tagged

‘business’

EventDate
Royal Bank of Scotland invents the overdraft 31st May
Tearoom founder Catherine Cranston is born in Glasgow 27th May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis 19th May
Tea magnate Thomas Lipton is born 10th May
Jenners opens on Princes Street 1st May
Biscuit king Robert McVitie is born 29th March
Captain Alexander Allan dies in Glasgow 18th March
Sir Walter Scott’s first Malachai Malagrowther letter appears in print 22nd February
France tries again after Scottish bank collapse 18th January