Excerpt from Coutts Co; Bankers Edinburgh and London: Being the Memoirs of a Family Distinguished for Its Public Services in England and Scotland When in 1895 my biography of George Morland appeared, some persons professed to be shocked to find that so great an artist should have led so irregular a life. In the following pages I shall depict no George Morland struggling, like his illustrious contemporary Robert Burns, with fierce passions so faithfully re flected in the works of both. My subject is a Banking house of world-wide fame, instituted and maintained by men of spotless integrity, undying energy, and the highest professional skill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.