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in 1746, was the largest firm in the Scottish linen industry in the 18th century, exporting linen to England and America. As a joint-stock company, it had the right to raise funds through the issue of promissory notes or bonds. With its bonds functioning as bank notes, the company gradually moved into the business of lending and discounting to other linen manufacturers, and in the early 1770s banking became its main activity. Renamed the
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Encouraged and subsidized by the board of trustees so it could compete with German products, merchant entrepreneurs became dominant in all stages of linen manufacturing and built up the market share of Scottish linens, especially in the American colonial market. The British Linen Company, established
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in 1906, it was one of Scotland's premier banks until it was bought out by the Bank of Scotland in 1969. It joined the established Scottish banks such as the
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The linen industry was Scotland's premier industry in the 18th century and formed the basis for the later cotton, jute, and woollen industries.
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Miskell, Louise; Whatley, C. A. (Autumn 1999). "'Juteopolis' in the Making: Linen and the Industrial Transformation of Dundee, c. 1820-1850".
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Durie, Alastair (1993). "Imitation in Scottish Eighteenth-Century Textiles: The Drive to Establish the Manufacture of Osnaburg Linen".
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Cowen, T.; Kroszner, R. (May 1989). "Scottish Banking before 1845: A Model for Laissez-Faire?".
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of the linen industry was abolished in 1823, the focus of the board turned to the
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Durie, Alastair J. (April 1973). "The Markets for Scottish Linen, 1730-1775".
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Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland
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Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850
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The board was established in 1727, with the purpose of dispersing
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Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone
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at the University of Edinburgh (13 Feb 1901 – ?)
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Encouragement of the Manufactures and Fisheries of Scotland

Royal Scottish Academy building
Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
industrial policy
grants
fishing
state regulation
decorative arts
fine arts
Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh
industrial design
National Galleries of Scotland
British Linen Bank
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
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Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo
William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet
George Clerk-Maxwell
Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton
Thomas Dick Lauder
James Veitch, Lord Elliock
Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
James Robertson, Baron Robertson
Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, KCMG
Sir John Cowan, 1st Baronet
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, Baron Carmichael

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