Board minute books of the National Provincial Insurance Company Limited.
Sans titreReliance Marine Insurance Company Limited records comprise board minute books. 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.
Sans titreMinutes of the United British Insurance Company Limited.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreRecords of the Victory Insurance Company, comprising annual reports and accounts, a prospectus, and a register of members.
Sans titreNational Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, correspondence, accounts, reports, policy registers and books of tables. They include some series continued after the merger in 1896.
24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sans titreRecords of the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association, including minutes, financial material, records of policies and claims, and records of the benevolent fund. The records include some records of the Planet (later Citizen) Assurance Corporation Limited, which was absorbed by the Association in 1874.
Sans titreRecords of the Alliance Marine Assurance Company, later known as Alliance Marine and General Assurance Company Limited, comprising deeds of settlement, minutes and financial material.
Sans titreMinutes of Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreThe Imperial Life Insurance Company records comprise minutes, annual reports and accounts, correspondence, prospectuses, register of mortgages and claims by shareholders for shares in Alliance Assurance.
Sans titreThe Law Union and Rock Insurance Company Limited records comprise: deed of settlement, prospectus, agreements, conveyances and related papers 1854-1970; AGM minutes and annual reports and accounts 1855-1970; board minutes and agendas 1858-1973; committee minutes and reports 1857-1935; seal registers 1896-1964; correspondence and reports 1901-28; policy registers 1854-67; instructions to agents 1898-1903; scrapbooks ca.1888-1961; and records concerning staff 1896-1957.
Permission to publish any material must be obtained from the depositor.
Sans titrePatriotic Assurance Company records comprise foreign letter books 1901-7; investment ledger 1903-24; and notes on foreign agencies 1900-20.
Sans titreThe Provident Life Office collection comprises constitutional records, minutes, annual reports and other administrative items, as well as the life policy registers for 1806-1906.
Sans titreYork and London Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprising instruction booklet for agents.
Sans titreReports of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, comprising reports of visits to overseas branches in the USA, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Australasia, Africa, and South America.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sans titreMinute books of the No 1 Cornhill Club, a professional association for insurers.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreMinutes of the Withington Friendly Burial Collecting Society.
Sans titreMedico-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.
Sans titrePapers of the British Medical Association compring files [1915-1960], from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, [1907-1982].
Sans titreLetter to Mrs Peel regarding his writing on insurance, 1912.
Sans titreA collection of letters, printed circulars, etc, mainly addressed to William Blackwood, of Messrs Stuart and Blackwood, Peebles, Scotland, 1859-1901. The topics covered reflect the firm's business activities: requests for legal advice or legal action; requests to act as agents or trustees; and legal advice or legal action on insurance, assurance and debts. A signficant proportion of the letters concern the Symington extension of the Caledonian Railway Company (1861).
Sans titreLetter from Richard Smith of 'Bordeaux River', [France] to Seth Barton, merchant, Baltimore, [USA], 1794. Giving the terms of a charter party between James Swan and Co and Thomas Harris, on the London Packet (c 260 tons), which was to take on a cargo of wines and brandy at Bordeaux, to carry to Baltimore; discussing expenses and asks Barton to take out £400 insurance for him.
Autograph, with signature.
Sans titreManuscript Articles of Agreement, 1 Feb 1793, between a company of gentlemen for raising a fund of fifty thousand pounds, for the purpose of establishing a general insurance office, 'to ensure persons from loss of property by burglaries, highway and footpad robberies, public and private thefts, together with the expense of prosecution'. Includes the signatures of the 84 original shareholders against the number of shares held by each.
Sans titreCollection consists of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's newsletter 'OPDU Report' (issue 7 missing).
Sans titreRecords of the Association of Consulting Actuaries, 1951-2013, including minutes of the main committee, sessional meetings and annual general meetings, 1951-2003, and various publications, including annual reviews, Parliamentary Pensions Briefs, survey reports, histories and a fiftieth anniversary dinner souvenir programme.
Sans titrePapers, 1722-1880, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to premises in Grosvenor Square, including leases, mortgages, bargain and sale, indentures, assignments, fire insurance policies, inventory, abstract of title and agreements.
Sans titreMinutes of meetings of the directors and of general meetings of those insurance companies known as the Java Companies.
Sans titreLetters to C. S. Knight, insurance broker, concerning membership of a syndicate of Lloyd's of London underwriters.
Sans titreThe grant of arms and grant of livery of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, 1980.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.
Sans titreFinancial and accounting records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising journal.
Sans titreShares records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company, comprising register of members.
Sans titreShares records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited (reconstituted) comprising registers of members and transfers, transfer ledger, share certificate books and dividend mandates, and registers of directors' shareholdings.
Sans titreCorporate records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising certificates and agreement relating to foundation, board of directors' minutes, shareholders' and annual general meeting minutes.
Sans titreCorporate records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising certificate of incorporation, shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings minutes, annual reports and accounts, audited accounts, registers of directors and secretaries, share ledger, register of transfers, and company seal book.
Sans titreRecords of Commonwealth Insurance Company Limited comprising papers relating to amalgamation.
Sans titreShares 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.
Sans titreFinancial 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.
Sans titreCorporate 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.
Sans titreStaff 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.
Sans titreCorporate records of the Home and Overseas Insurance Company Limited comprising annual reports and accounts, and amalgamation papers.
Sans titreBusiness records of Liverpool Reversionary Company Limited including valuations of life interests and reversions; correspondence relating to assignments and live interests, and debenture bonds held by life interests.
Sans titrePremises records of the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society including article, prints and advertisement.
Sans titreCorporate records of Palladium Life Assurance Society including deed of settlement, and correspondence relating to merger between Eagle and Palladium.
Sans titreCorporate records of Publishers and General Insurance Company Limited including management agreement with correspondence about organisation, and notes on published accounts.
Sans titreStaff records of Premier Motor Policies Limited including salaries book, report of the retirement of Rodney Byrne, and 'Premier' house magazine.
Sans titreCorporate records of Removers and General Insurance Company Limited including annual reports and accounts, register of directors and secretaries, and company seal book.
Sans titreBusiness records of Sceptre Life Association Limited including policy registers, propectuses, policies issued, copies of Married Women's Property Act and report of related legal case, agency appointment and correspondence, and papers relating to fund.
Sans titreCorporate records of Solicitors and General Assurance Society including deeds of settlement, and memorial relating to policyholders' petition for meeting to convert to mutual status.
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