Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.
The danger of this happening will become acute on December 21st, when a Scottish businessman, Andrew Cubie, is due, at Mr Dewar's request, to publish a report about the future of university tuition fees, a subject which accident as much as design has elevated into a difference of high principle between Labour and the Lib Dems.
Gone are the days of the Clydesdale Bank when it had a reputation of being the businessman's bank, when it looked after its customers and sometimes staff too, when it could make profits without effort, when it could afford to innovate and to effectively become the first bank with an online counter system.
And he drew a parallel with the situation at McLaren in the early 1980s, when wealthy Saudi businessman Mansour Ojjeh bought a shareholding in the team and enabled it to grow quickly into the dominant force in F1.
In May, when Bulat Chagaev, a Chechen businessman, bought Neuchatel Xamax, he immediately fired manager Didier Olle-Nicolle and replaced him with Bernard Challandes for the last few games of the season.
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And if it was the Tory Europhiles who made the running this week, there was a sharp reminder of the power of the sceptical tendency when Paul Sykes, a Tory-supporting businessman, announced he was quitting the party for failing adequately to oppose the euro, taking his millions with him.
He was such a bad businessman that when he died, he was several hundred thousand dollars in debt.
Although averse to commerce, Gerald proved to be a first-rate businessman when he went back to save the family firm, Mark Cross, from liquidation during the Depression.
He says he acted as a go-between for UBS and Zain's biggest shareholders, and met in December 2009 with the late Nasser Kharafi, a businessman who was Zain's largest shareholder, when he says UBS still was clamoring for a definite mandate to handle the transaction.
Unelected he may be, but Mr Macdonald is far from being the first minister who has been brought into government by the gift of a life peerage: Margaret Thatcher followed just this route when she ennobled Lord Young and then employed the successful businessman in a variety of ministerial jobs.
One was a businessman who remembered his hungry childhood when he had white bread, Crisco, and sugar for dinner.
Nigerians started picking up the game in 1958 when Dr. Oladele da Rochas Afoda, a prominent businessman, became the first Nigerian member of the club.
Mr. Colin has become a successful businessman in recent years, although when he left his father's estate, Domaine Marc Colin, in 2005, his future looked anything but assured.
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The impression remains of a smooth-talking businessman who can't forget the glory days when bankers came calling, elections were predictable and lucrative projects there for the taking.
Chicago businessman Urooj Khan jumped for joy when he learned he had the winning numbers for a million-dollar lottery drawing last summer.
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The court heard the self-employed businessman was on his way to a supermarket at about 09:00 GMT when he crashed his Vauxhall Moriva in Haughton Road, Darlington.
Leading 3-1 against Premier League Aston Villa, a club owned by American businessman Randy Lerner, the visitor fell behind in the 24th minute when Belgian striker Christian Benteke flicked home.
The allegations are that when he was mayor of Jerusalem and later a minister, some of the campaign funds he received from an American businessman and fundraiser, Morris Talansky, were bribes, though it is unclear what the supposed bribers got in return.
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