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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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