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Ruthwell is a village and parish on the Solway Firth between Dumfries and Annan in Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland .
minister , author , antiquarian , geologist , publisher , philanthropist , artist and businessman .
1810 , Dr. Duncan opened the world's first commercial savings bank , paying interest on its investors' modest savings. The Savings Bank Museum tells the story of early home savings in Britain .
1818 , Dr. Duncan restored the Ruthwell Cross , one of the finest Anglo-Saxon crosses in Britain , now in Ruthwell church. This cross is remarkable for its runic inscription, which contains excerpts from The Dream of the Rood Old English poem .
1843 , at the time of the Disruption in the Church of Scotland , Dr. Duncan became one of the founding ministers of the Free Church of Scotland .
External link The Savings Bank Museum (http://www.savingsbanksmuseum.co.uk/ )
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Ruthwell was the poorest post of the three but the lure of his home area took him there. As a minister in Ruthwell his main concern was the poor and trying to help them. The inscriptions on it are from a devotional poem "The Dream of the Rood ", the oldest poem in English written by Northumbrian poets circa 7th century.
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