21 C Field Mektixmgs. 



reaching a height of about fifty feet. On the front face is a 

 portrait medallion, and below it the inscription:— 



The righteous shall be had in everlasting 

 remembrance. — Psalm 112, 6. 



Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., founder of 

 Savings Banks. Born 1774. Died 1846. 

 Other faces of the basal pyramid are inscribed as follows : — 



He was 44 years minister of the parish of 

 Ruthwell. But in 1843, impelled by the dictates 

 of conscience, he cheerfully relinquished the 

 emoluments of the Establishment, and closed in 

 the communion of the Free Church of Scotland 

 a faithful ministry of 47 years. 



He was the friend and father of his people: 

 his rare benevolence, unwearied perseverance, 

 and varied acquirements were devoted to their 

 temporal and eternal interests. 



Erected to the memory of a beloved pastor 

 by his friends and flock, many of whom were 

 constrained by a sense of duty to leave the Estab- 

 lished Church, and followed him and found with 

 him a sanctuary on this spot. 



The visitors in.spected the various objects of interest under 

 the guidance of the Rev. Mr Angus, and the ladies of the party 

 were also kindlv entertained by Mrs Angus in the manse. 



They next proceeded to Comlongon Castle, and thence 

 drove through Clarencefield and on to Ruthwell village. Here, 

 lying apart from the main highway and near to the sea, some 

 two dozen whitewashed cottages cluster loosely together near the 

 meeting of two roads, being mostly built in pairs, and each in 

 old times had its little pendicle of land. In the front wall of 

 one of them has been recently inserted a narrow white marble 

 slab, with this inscription: — 



" To commemorate the first Sa\ings Bank 

 founded in this building in 1810. by the Rev. 

 Henry Duncan, D.D., of Ruthwell, a measure 

 which claimed at his hands nearly ten years of 

 devoted work and pecuniary sacrifice. This 

 tribute to his memory has been erected by his 

 great-grand-daughter, Sophy Hall, in 1908." 



