Perth Savings Bank

In 1975, it merged to form part of the Trustee Savings Bank of Tayside and Central Scotland.

The objective was to be "the promotion of economy, sobriety, and industry in the working classes of the community".

The meeting approved the proposal and appointed "a committee of local gentlemen" to report on the correct regulations.

He ran the bank on a voluntary basis until his retirement in 1839, but the official history was not kind to his tenure, recording that the bank "was conducted for 24 years on the primitive lines originally laid down, but the restrictions imposed ... by the rules, together with the inadequate facilities provided for public business, retarded the natural development and expansion of the bank.” There were no paid officers and directors shared the duties.

A leading spirit was Melville Jameson, Procurator Fiscal of the County of Perth, one of the founders of the Bank and the new Secretary.

By 1847 the trustees reported that "almost the whole of the towns of any importance in the county are now accommodated with branch offices and other localities participate in the advantage of this institution by the system of receiving agencies.