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GRAY, DAWES AND COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-30 · Collection · 1866-1973

Records of Gray, Dawes and Company, general merchants and agents, including partnership deeds; articles of association; correspondence; memoranda; financial accounts; papers relating to investments; papers of the insurance department; papers of the inward freight department; papers regarding the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited; and secretarial papers.

Gray, Dawes and Co , general merchants and agents
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-14 · Collection · 1913

Records of the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association, comprising a deed of constitution.

Fire Offices' Committee , Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association
GB 0097 GIFFEN · 1861-1910

This collection consists of Giffen's correspondence on subjects including the national finances, currency and bimetallism (particularly in relation to India), wages and prices, free trade, and expenditure on the army and navy; articles by Giffen, on diverse subjects including the national finances and monetary laws, the Political Economy Club, and househunting and housebuilding; papers on subjects including war risks to British trade and shipping and 'The Statist'; and press cuttings concerning currency, trade, public finance, and Giffen himself.

Giffen , Sir , Robert , 1837-1910 , Knight , economist and statistician
GB 0064 GMA · Collection · 1839-1851

Papers of the General Maritime Assurance Company including papers of cases tried in the Exchequer Court of Common Pleas, concerning vessels insured with the company, 1839 to 1851. They include extracts from log books, survey reports and correspondence.

General Maritime Assurance Company
GB 0074 CLC/B/055-08 · Collection · 1868-1870

Board minutes of the General Accident and Guarantee Company Limited.

The minutes are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

General Accident and Guarantee Co Ltd
CLC/B/005/FH02 · sub-fonds · 1922-1966

Corporate records of Fred Haigh and Company Limited comprising register of members, with transfers.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Fred Haigh and Co Ltd , insurance providers
CLC/B/005/FH01 · sub-fonds · 1922-1967

Corporate records of Fred Haigh and Company Limited comprising memorandum and articles of association, board of directors' minute book.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Fred Haigh and Co Ltd , insurance providers
GB 0074 CLC/B/055-07 · Collection · 1890-1969

Records of the Fine Art and General Insurance Company Limited comprising Board minute books, Committee minute books and general meeting minute books.

They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Fine Art and General Insurance Co Ltd
FENNING AND SHEPARD (FIRM)
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-074 · Collection · 1825-1852

Records of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).

Fenning and Shepard , insurance brokers and underwriters
GB 0074 CLC/B/192-17 · Collection · 1839-1961

The Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company collection primarily comprises minutes, but also includes some constitutional documents, examples of policies and other administrative records.

Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Co
GB 0074 CLC/B/107-09 · Collection · 1907-1909

Essex and Suffolk Insurance Company Limited records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-1909 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).

Essex and Suffolk Insurance Co Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/107-23 · Collection · 1907-1909

Essex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-9 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).

Essex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society
GB 0074 CLC/B/079-02 · Collection · 1835-1976

Records of the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; ledgers; registers of valuations of reversions; registers of recoveries; and registers of debentures.

Equitable Reversionary Interest Society
GB 0074 CLC/B/079 · Collection · 1803-1982

Records of the Equitable Life Assurance Society spanning 1803 to 1976; with records of associated societies the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1835 to 1976); the Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1823 to 1982) and the University Life Assurance Society (spanning 1825 to 1957).

Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships Equitable Life Assurance Society Equitable Reversionary Interest Society Reversionary Interest Society University Life Assurance Society
CLC/B/005/ESL06 · sub-fonds · 1899-1908

Staff records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including salaries and staffing expenses, and general manager's observations on memorandum; analysis of salaries payable; photographs and prints of staff.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Ltd x English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance and Loan Association
CLC/B/005/ESL02 · sub-fonds · 1909-1918

Shares records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited comprising register of transfers.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Ltd x English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance and Loan Association
CLC/B/005/ESL03 · sub-fonds · 1839-1901

Financial and accounting records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including ledger, schedule of assets, actuary's and directors' committee's reports.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Ltd x English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance and Loan Association
CLC/B/005/ESL01 · sub-fonds · 1839-1959

Corporate records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including deeds of settlement and resolutions; Board of Directors: minutes and agendas; notice and report of annual general meetings; annual reports, quinquennial reports, fund statements and valuations; death and burial certificates of directors; papers relating to amalgamation and liquidation.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Ltd x English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance and Loan Association
CLC/B/005/ESL04 · sub-fonds · 1837-1987

Business records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including policy registers, individual policies and related papers, prospectuses and related papers, rate book and tables, fund accounts, letter book and reports, fire policy, report on the desirability of undertaking employers' liability business, calendars and diary, agents' commission rates, overseas reports, Life Offices Association annual reports, papers relating to position of life offices and income tax, papers relating to London United Tramways Limited, general manager's cutting and documents for information.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Ltd x English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance and Loan Association
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-10 · Collection · 1920-1965

Minute books of the Engineering Offices Association, an association of engineering insurers.

Engineering Offices Association , association of engineering insurers
EDINBURGH ASSURANCE COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/055-05 · Collection · 1925-1961

Records from the Marine Department of the Edinburgh Assurance Company Limited, comprising registers of vessels, casualty books, loss report books, and salvage books.

Edinburgh Assurance Co Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/192-15 · Collection · 1823-1939

Economic Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes and other financial and administrative material.

Economic Life Assurance Society
GB 0074 CLC/140 · Collection · 1974-1988

Papers relating to an Economic and Social Research Council funded project to index fire insurance policies of the Sun and the Royal Exchange, including copies of the indexes.

ESRC , Economic and Social Research Council x Economic and Social Research Council
CLC/B/005/ES06 · sub-fonds · 1913-1998

Staff records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including staff standing orders; photographs of staff and related papers and correspondence; instructions, guides and notes for staff; circulars; reminiscences of staff pensioners; papers relating to staff salaries and pension schemes; Eagle Pension Funds Limited: ledgers; papers, correspondence and photographs relating to staff social activities; and magazines.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES02 · sub-fonds · 1904-1974

Shares records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including registers of members and share ledgers, registers of transfers, notices and correspondence relating to North Western Insurance, allotment book, registers of directors' shareholdings, correspondence relating to reference shares issue, papers relating to share capitalization scheme, executive share incentive scheme memoranda and register.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES05 · sub-fonds · 1624-2005

Premises records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including papers, correspondence, plans and photographs relating to office premises, branches in England and Scotland, and property investments.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES03 · sub-fonds · 1918-1994

Financial and accounting records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including revenue results books; close of year books; papers, reports, minutes and statements of accounts committee; actuarial valuations and close of year files; actuarial correspondence; papers relating to development of mechanised accounting, introduction of computers and decimalisation; and annual management reports.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES01 · sub-fonds · 1904-1998

Corporate records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including Board of Directors' agendas and minute books; memoranda, articles of association, certificates of incorporation and registration, insurance companies regulations; minutes of various committees; index of parties to correspondence and agreements; minute book of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings; annual reports and accounts; papers of British Insurance Association, Chartered Insurance Association, Insurance Institute of London, Insurance Institute of Ilford and SW Essex; printed histories of Halifax and Temperance Permanent Building Societies; registers of directors; directors' dinners: menu, photographs, programme, table assignments; correspondence files of main board and directors; photographs of and papers relating to Sir Edward Mountain; circular letter regarding setting up of local boards; directories of and files relating to local directors; minutes of local boards and related reports and photographs; minutes, reports and correspondence of regional boards; stationery samples and letterheads; and papers relating to grants of arms to Eagle Star.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES04 · sub-fonds · 1849-2001

Business records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including papers relating to marine, fire, motor, life, pluvius and general insurance; papers relating to war loan, branches, agents and overseas organisation; and publicity material.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/ES07 · sub-fonds · 1916-1977

Records of Eagle Star Insurance Company relating to acquisitions, including purchase of British Crown: letters and accounts; Eagle Insurance Company: liquidation papers; Livestock and General Underwriters Limited: certificate of incorporation, balance sheet; Sceptre Life Association Limited: purchase papers; Shield Insurance Company Limited: sample policy forms; Star Life Assurance Society Limited: purchase papers.

Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd British Dominions Marine Insurance Co British Dominions General Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Insurance Co Eagle, Star and British Dominions
CLC/B/005/EA06 · sub-fonds · 1791-1882

Staff records of Eagle Insurance Company including working papers of Charles Jellicoe, Henry Porter Smith and Francis Ernest Colenso.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
CLC/B/005/EA02 · sub-fonds · 1808-1916

Shares records of Eagle Insurance Company including returns of shareholders and assignees of shares; receipts for shares; Fenn and Crosthwaite monthly list; and statutory returns.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
CLC/B/005/EA05 · sub-fonds · [1800]-[1929]

Premises records of Eagle Insurance Company including notes and advert relating to 79 Pall Mall; subscription book for prints of portraits; draft notes relating to properties in London and sale particulars for property in Middlesex.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
CLC/B/005/EA01 · sub-fonds · 1795-2001

Corporate records of Eagle Insurance Company including articles of agreement on the foundation of company and deed of settlement; Eagle Act of Parliament; certificate of registration; memorandum and articles of association; Board of Directors: minute books, west end board agenda books, printed copy of resolutions of the founding meeting; finance committee agenda book and minute book; Eagle, Star and British Dominions securities committee minute book; annual reports and accounts, engravings, copy death certificates and wills and other papers relating to Eagle directors, amalgamation papers, liquidation minutes and papers.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
CLC/B/005/EA04 · sub-fonds · 1808-[1999]

Business records of Eagle Insurance Company including indexes of lives assured; individual life policies, assignments and related correspondence; life prospectuses, specimen proposal forms, medical reports and related papers; premium receipts and cheques; Eagle fund annual accounts, quinquennial reports and related papers; fire policies; newspapers, press cuttings and advertisements relating to Eagle Star; prospectuses for foreign business; and correspondence from Bristol branch.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
CLC/B/005/EA07 · sub-fonds · 1794-1891

Records of Eagle Insurance Company relating to acquisitions and mergers, comprising papers of the following companies amalgamated with Eagle: Albion, Alfred, City of London, London Indisputable, London Mutual, Mentor, National Mercantile, Palladium, Protector, Solicitors' and General. Includes papers and correspondence relating to amalgamation; papers of directors, shareholders and trustees; accounts; and prospectuses.

Eagle Insurance Co British Dominions General
GB 0120 PP/JWD · 1959-1992

Medico-legal reports compiled by John Wanless Dickson, at the request of solicitors acting for clients, or for insurance companies, on individuals claiming compensation for injuries, usually from road accidents; complete run for 1959-1992, except for the year 1960.

Dickson , John Wanless , 1920-2001 , orthopaedic surgeon
DEBRIS CLEARANCE POOL
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-09 · Collection · 1941-1947

Minute book of the Debris Clearance Pool Committee.

Debris Clearance Pool Committee
GB 0096 MS1129 · Fonds · 4536

Letter to Mrs Peel regarding his writing on insurance, 1912.

Dawson , William Harbutt , 1860-1948 , journalist and civil servant
GB 0074 ACC/2305/04-3 · Collection · 1926-1957

Property records from the Dartford Brewery Company Limited, comprising insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book and tenants' dilapidations ledger.

Dartford Brewery Co Ltd
CROWN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/192-14 · Collection · 1825-1892

Crown Life Assurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement, 1853; conveyance of assets, 1867; agreement for amalgamation, 1891; rules and regulations, 1825-1873; minutes, 1825-92; and report books, 1870-1890.

Permission to publish any material must be obtained: ask a member of staff for further information.

Crown Life Assurance Co
GB 0074 ACC/2305/26-6 · Collection · 1962-1964

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including correspondence relating to properties owned by the company; and papers relating to insurance policies.

Courage, Barclay and Simonds Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/26-2 · Collection · 1961-1971

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including financial accounts of subsidiary companies incuding Barclay Perkins, Charles Beasley, Courage and Company, Courage and Barclay, the Dartford Brewery, Georges Brewery Properties, Hodgsons Kingston Brewery, Noakes, Reffells Bexley Brewery, Royal Brewery Brentford, Style and Winch, Nicholsons, Harmans Uxbridge Brewery, Clinch and Company, R Halley, and Horselydown Property Investment Company; redemption accounts; papers relating to budgets; papers and correspondence relating to travel insurance; papers and agendas of the Decimalization Sub-committee; papers and correspondence about tenants' goodwill.

Courage, Barclay and Simonds Ltd , brewers
COUNTY FIRE OFFICE LIMITED
GB 0074 CLC/B/192-13 · Collection · 1807-1985

Records of the County Fire Office Limited, including instructions to agents; deed of constitution; deeds of settlement; papers relating to the takeover by Alliance Assurance Company; minutes; annual reports and accounts; financial records; share registers; specimen policies; correspondence; policy registers; registers of fires in London; staff registers; newsletters; papers relating to office premises; notes on the history of the Company; and photographs.

The archives contain many references to the Provident Life Office, the sister company of the County Fire Office, with which it shared many of its premises and staff.

County Fire Office Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/061 · Collection · 1906-1979

Records of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, financial material, membership records and other administrative papers.

Corporation of Insurance Brokers
CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS COMMITTEE
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-08 · Collection · 1908-1985

Minute books and circulars of the Consequential Loss Committee, part of the Fire Offices' Committee. Please note that permission must be obtained from the Association of British Insurers for access to records less than 75 years old. Contact details may be obtained from staff.

Fire Offices' Committee , Consequential Loss Committee
CLC/B/005/CW01 · sub-fonds · 1918

Records of Commonwealth Insurance Company Limited comprising papers relating to amalgamation.

Eagle, Star and British Dominions Commonwealth Insurance Co Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/055 · Collection · 1701-1962

Records of the Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, including minutes, ledgers, journals, letters, and insurance registers. Also records of subsidiary and predecessor companies, including:

Accident Insurance Company;
British and European Insurance Company;
British General Insurance Company;
Edinburgh Assurance Company;
Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation;
Fine Art and General Insurance Company;
General Accident and Guarantee Company;
Guardian Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company;
Imperial Live Stock and General Insurance Company;
Indemnity Marine Insurance Company;
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Corporation;
London Amicable Assurance Society;
London and Scottish Assurance Corporation;
Mercantile Fire Insurance Company;
New India Assurance Company;
North British and Mercantile Insurance Company;
Northern Assurance Company;
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation;
Ocean and General Guarantee Company;
Ocean Marine Insurance Company;
Palatine Insurance Company;
Planet Assurance Corporation;
Provident Clerks and General Guarantee and Accident Company;
Railway Passengers Assurance Company;
Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company;
Union Assurance Society;
United Kingdom Life Assurance Company;
Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited;
World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation;
World Marine and General Insurance Company.

Various.
COLLYER BRISTOW {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 ACC/3134 · Collection · 1781-1975

Records of Collyer Bristow and Company, solicitors, 1781-1975. The catalogue has been divided into three sections. The first consists of records dealing with the administration of the company, and includes day books and clerks' time books; the second section deals with the financial records of the firm.

The third, and largest, section is concerned with clients' administration. Records in this section include lists of clients' papers held or returned by the firm, and registers recording probate, insurance, property transactions and periodical payments made to a third party on behalf of the client.

Collyer Bristow and Company , solicitors