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    bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern...
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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 Goliath heron (Ardea goliath), also known as the giant heron, is a very large wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae. It is found in sub-Saharan...
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  • British Linen Bank City of Glasgow Bank Commercial Bank of Scotland Douglas, Heron & Company Glasgow and Ship Bank Leith Banking Company National Bank...
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    The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts...
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    heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons...
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  • was a founder of a bank in Ayr, Douglas, Heron & Company, which went bankrupt during the credit crisis of 1772. Heron was elected unopposed at a by-election...
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    In geometry, Heron's formula (or Hero's formula) gives the area of a triangle in terms of the three side lengths a , {\displaystyle a,} b , {\displaystyle...
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    credit". For the purpose of increasing the supply of money, the bank of Douglas, Heron & Company, known as the "Ayr Bank", was established in Ayr, Scotland...
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    The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family. It is the only member...
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    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 1772. The resultant...
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    The Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) is a small heron. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Iran and east to the Indian subcontinent...
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  • 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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    Clan Douglas (Gaelic: Dùbhghlas) is an ancient clan or noble house from the Scottish Lowlands. Taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire, their leaders...
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    Queensberry was one of many who had lost heavily from the failure of the Douglas Heron and Co Bank in 1776. As his sons predeceased him, leaving him without...
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  • "spirit of overtrading" from the 1760s culminating in the collapse of Douglas, Heron & Company in 1772 and other small banks, whose activities led to the...
    3 KB (335 words) - 07:54, 24 April 2024
  • of the slave trade. Fergusson was a partner of the disastrous bank Douglas, Heron & Company. In 1783 he was a founding member of the Royal Society of...
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    wealth. Her £10,000 fortune was lost by Dundas through an investment in Douglas, Heron & Company, also known as the Ayr Bank, which crashed in 1772. Numerous...
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    that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, known under the Firm of Douglas, Heron and Company." Plymouth Fortifications Act 1782 22 Geo. 3. c. 12 25 March...
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  • "de Havilland DH.114 Heron". rzjets. Retrieved 15 July 2019. "De Havilland DH 114 Heron". Itavia. Retrieved 15 July 2019. "Douglas C-47A". rzjets. Retrieved...
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