W & J S Gordon

1793- The firm was founded by William Meffan, Writer in Forfar, by November 1793. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Forfar Volunteers on 13th November 1801. On 8th September 1828 he assumed his son Patrick Meffan as partner, under the firm name of "William and Patrick Meffan". He died on 12th March 1829, having been Provost of Forfar from 1819/24. 1858- His son Patrick Meffan, by August 1858, had assumed David Crighton as partner with the firm name then "Meffan & Crighton". Patrick Meffan was Provost of Forfar from 1840 to 1849.

He died on 11th August, 1863. 1872- David Crighton carried on under his own name, then by 1872 in partnership with William Gordon (who had been unable to continue as a banker as his hand was injured in a shot-gun accident). The firm was then designated "Crighton and Gordon". By 1880 William Gordon was carrying on the firm under his own name. 1898- William Gordon assumed his son John S. Gordon in 1898, under the still current firm name of W.