About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Governors of the Bank of Scotland, John Law, Fred Goodwin, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Roger Jenkins, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, James Wilson, John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Benny Higgins, William Paterson, Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, Sir John Nairne, 1st Baronet, Ewen Cameron, John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, Henry Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth, Charles Annand Fraser, Thomas Sutherland, John Mackenzie, Andrew Wilson, Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham, David Thorburn, Thomas Coutts, Peter Burt, Henry Duncan, William Purves, Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, Robert Fleming, Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet, Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, Alexander Macdonald Hamilton, George Campbell, Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, George Gough Arbuthnot, Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington, Patrick Heron, Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, Matthew Alistair Grant, John Holland. Excerpt: Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin CA, FCIBS (born 17 August 1958) is a Scottish chartered accountant and former banker who was chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) between 2001 and 2009. From 2000 until 2008 he presided over RBS's rapid rise to global prominence as the world's largest company (by assets - 1.9 trillion), and fifth-largest bank by stock market value and its even more rapid fall as RBS was forced into effective nationalisation in 2008. On October 11, 2008, Goodwin officially announced his resignation as Chief Executive and...