16 FEBRUARY 1929, Page 36

INTERESTING BANKING APPOINTMENT.

Sebttish Banking circles will be the gainers while London EinIceriwill certainly be the losers.by the impending departure of Mr. William. Whyte, the -nuiriager of the London (City) Office of the Royal Bank of Scotland, to take up his new duties as deputy to Sir Alexander Wright, the general manager of the bank in "Edinburgh. Although gaining his earlier banking experience North of the Tweed, most of Mr: Whyte's banking career has been in the London Office of the Royal

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Bank, of which he became the manager a feiv years- ago at the early age of forty-two. Gifted with an attractive personality, and an enthusiast in his profession, Mr. Whyte has gained many friends in binkiiig circles, Whose gobd wishes will follow him when he takes up his still greater responsibilities in Edinburgh. IIe is to be succeeded as manager at the London (City) Office by the present deputy, Mr. John Robb, while Mr. John McArthur Thomson will