Many names, famous in all ranks of life, are registered in the accounts of the customers of Messrs Coutts. Taking them at random, they include Pitt, Lord Londonderry, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington, Nelson, Lord Bute, Dr Johnson, C.J. Fox, Lord Grenville, Lord Macartney, Pope, Benjamin West, Lord George Gordon, Dr Armstrong, Mrs FitzHerbert, Charles Dickens, Livingstone, Alfred Tennyson, and Henry Irving. Kings George III. and IV., and William IV., banked here, as did Queen Victoria. Messrs Coutts are also the bankers of King Edward VII.--who also kept an account at No. 59 when he was Prince of Wales--of Queen Alexandra, of the Queen of Spain, and of the King of Portugal. The partners in the bank are, with the exception of the Hon. W.F.D. Smith, of Scottish descent. On February 23, 1906, the capital was registered as £600,000, distributed as follows:-- William Rolle Malcolm, Lord A. Campbell, G.J. Marjoribanks, and the Earl of Harrowby, as trustees for the persons interested under the will of Harriot, Duchess of St Albans £223,600 Ronald Malcolm and G.J. Marjoribanks (jointly) 82,900 Archibald Dudley Ryder, Edward Dudley Ryder, and the Earl of Harrowby 82,700 William Rolle Malcolm 53,000 The Earl of Harrowby 36,500 George John Marjoribanks 40,000 Lord Archibald Campbell 31,700 The Baroness Burdett-Coutts 21,100 The Hon. F.W.D. Smith 10,000 Ronald Malcolm 10,000 Archibald Dudley Ryder 4,250 The Hon. Edward Dudley Ryder 4,250 -------- £600,000