York and London Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprising instruction booklet for agents.
York and London Fire and Life Assurance CoThe grant of arms and grant of livery of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, 1980.
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Worshipful Company of ActuariesRecords of the World Marine and General Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings, Board meetings and the London Committee. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
World Marine and General Insurance Co LtdRecords of the World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation Limited, comprising minutes of general meetings, board meetings, and managerial committee meetings. They are stored off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation LtdMinutes of the Withington Friendly Burial Collecting Society.
Withington Friendly Burial Collecting SocietyRecords of Wills, Faber and Dumas Limited comprising sea casualty books, 1916-20 and 1930-50; and a register of claims, 1932-54.
Wills, Faber and Dumas Ltd , insurance brokersWhittington Life Assurance Company records comprise constitutional documents, records of policies, prospectuses and other administrative material. 24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Whittington Life Assurance CoBoard minute books of Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited.
Westminster and Kensington Freeholds LtdMinutes of the Westminster and General Insurance Company Limited.
Westminster and General Insurance Co LtdDraft deed of settlement establishing the Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance Society; with papers relating to the sale of all their assets, policies, and property to the India and London Life Assurance Company.
Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance SocietyRecords of Watney Mann Ltd, 1712-1968, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company, including The Railway Hotel and "The Stag", Acton; "The Angel Hotel", Edmonton; The Park Hotel, Hanwell; "The Waggon and Horses", Tottenham, the Wheatsheaf Brewery, Twickenham and "The Case is Altered", "The Spotted Dog", the Stonebridge Park Hotel and "The Victoria", Willesden.
Watney Mann Ltd , brewersRecords of the Victory Insurance Company, comprising annual reports and accounts, a prospectus, and a register of members.
Victory Insurance CoRecords of Vehicle and General Insurance Co Ltd, including financial material, correspondence, minutes, papers relating to stock, and journals. Records of subsidiary companies including Automobile and General Insurance Co Ltd; General and Commercial Motor Insurance Co Ltd; Metropolitan General Insurance Co Ltd; Transport Indemnity Insurance Co Ltd; General and Commercial Insurance Co Ltd; Vehicle and General Investment Services Ltd; Ecole Europe (England) Ltd; Arthur Edwards (Insurance) Ltd; J.M. Horsley Ltd; Talkwax Ltd and Wray and Co.
Records of Coopers and Lybrand, the liquidator, including Committee of Inspection minutes; general minutes; statement of affairs for Vehicle and General Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for Automobile and General Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for General and Commercial Motor Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for Metropolitan General Insurance Co Ltd and statement of affairs for Transport Indemnity Insurance Co Ltd; correspondence files; finance records; stock records; and papers relating to creditors.
Vehicle and General Insurance Co LtdRecords of the University Life Assurance Society, including the Royal Charter and supplemental charters; minute books; share certificates; life policy registers; register of deaths of policyholders; letter books; legal case papers and register of probates.
University Life Assurance SocietyRecords of the United Kingdom Life Assurance Company comprising out-letter book and Directors' reports.
United Kingdom Life Assurance CoShare records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising share ledgers and register of transfers.
United Dominions Insurance Co Ltd x Credit Assurance x British Dominions Insurance British Dominions GeneralFinancial records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising yearly figures and petty cash book.
United Dominions Insurance Co Ltd x Credit Assurance x British Dominions Insurance British Dominions GeneralCorporate records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising certificates and agreement relating to foundation, board of directors' minutes, shareholders' and annual general meeting minutes.
United Dominions Insurance Co Ltd x Credit Assurance x British Dominions Insurance British Dominions GeneralMinutes of the United British Insurance Company Limited.
United British Insurance Co LtdRecords of the Union Assurance Society, comprising minutes of board meetings, general meetings, and committee meetings. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice to access.
Union Assurance SocietyShares records of Trent Insurance Company Limited including register of members and directors, with share ledger; share transactions; share certificate counterfoils; dividend mandates to Eagle Star; and register of directors' shareholdings.
Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Hercules Marine , insurance company x Trent Marine , insurance company x Trent Insurance Co LtdCorporate records of Trent Insurance Company Limited including agreements, board of directors' minute book, and reinsurance agreements with Eagle Star.
Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Hercules Marine , insurance company x Trent Marine , insurance company x Trent Insurance Co LtdMinute book of the Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance Committee, 1939-1941.
Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance CommitteeShares records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including registers of members and transfers, share ledgers, share certificates, lists of dividends payable in each year, and register of directors' shareholdings.
Eagle, Star and British Dominions Theatres Mutual Insurance Co LtdFinancial records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including papers relating to war bonds and cash book.
Eagle, Star and British Dominions Theatres Mutual Insurance Co LtdCorporate records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including memorandum and articles of association; board of directors' minute and agenda books; historical note regarding company; annual reports and statements of account; extraordinary general meeting correspondence and notices; registers of directors, members and secretaries; candidature of Emile Littler; papers relating to anniversary lunch arrangements; seal books; and papers relating to amalgamation.
Eagle, Star and British Dominions Theatres Mutual Insurance Co LtdBusiness records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including prospectus, specimen policies, policies issued, register of contingency insurances through theatrical agencies, and advertising: printed material.
Eagle, Star and British Dominions Theatres Mutual Insurance Co LtdRecords of the Surrey Tabernacle Benefit Society, including Management Committee minutes; subscriptions and benefits books; sick pay books; audited accounts; register of deaths; correspondence; and death benefit nominations.
Surrey Tabernacle Benefit SocietyPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to policies; including policy registers; endorsement books; registers of losses by fire; papers relating to claims; and photo album of fire and tornado damage.
The 'Place in the Sun' project, funded originally by Heritage Lottery Fund and led by London Archive Users Forum in partnership with the City of London Corporation, is an on-going project to index a run of policy registers (Ms 11936). So far (August 2010) the years 1792-1839 have been indexed. For further details please see LMA's website.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to other organisations; including copy minute books of the Accident Offices Association, Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign), London Continental Fire Insurance Committee, and Fire Offices' Committee.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to meetings; including General Committee minutes; Directors' meeting minutes; Management Committee minutes; annual general meeting minutes; minutes of the Accounts Committee, Finance Committee, Town Committee, Country Committee, and Building Committee; minutes of special committees such as the Committee of Inquiry relating to firemen, fire engines and water supply; report books; and resolutions book.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupConstitutional records of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, including articles of agreement; deeds; registration as a joint stock company; laws and regulations of the company; and papers relating to the take-over of other companies.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupReports 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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupGeneral administrative records of Sun Insurance Office Limited, including standing order books; resolutions; papers regarding company policy, management and office organisation; papers relating to general insurance matters and other insurance companies; legal memoranda; newspaper cuttings; policy documents; prospectuses; circulars; blank policy forms; booklets; statistics; papers relating to Sun Life Assurance Society; papers relating to the London Fire Engine Establishment and the London Salvage Corps; and a history by FB Relton.
The administrative records cover the domestic division of the Sun into 'Town' and 'Country' departments, and also the records of the foreign division from its inception in 1836.
This section includes notebooks and scrapbooks compiled by Francis Boyer Relton, who was Office Secretary 1873-82.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupCorrespondence of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, including letter books, correspondence and cable log books of Managers and Secretaries; correspondence with branches in Argentina, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Romania, Denmark, Uruguay, and the USA; correspondence with the Leeds branch; correspondence with the Patriotic Assurance Company, Dublin; and correspondence with the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupRecords of Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to agencies, both UK and abroad; including instructions to agents; lists and registers of agents; scrapbooks and notebooks containing notes, press cuttings and notices about agencies; foreign agency memorandum books; and foreign instructions books for Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and Russia.
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.
Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance GroupProperty records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including joint diary with the Royal Brewery Brentford and Dartford Brewery recording notes on premises and public houses; register of insurance for public houses; order book for repairs; tenants dilapidation registers; and repairs ledger.
Style and Winch Ltd , brewersState Assurance Company Limited records comprise share records 1891-1955 (Mss 16255, 16257-8), minutes 1891-1944 (Ms 16259) and miscellaneous papers 1917-29 (Ms 16256).
State Fire Insurance Co x State Assurance Co LtdStaff records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including papers and correspondence relating to Jesse Hobson and J.D. Watson.
Eagle and British Dominions Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyPremises records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including press cuttings and papers relating to company offices.
Eagle and British Dominions Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyCorporate records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including deeds of settlement; acts of parliament; Board of directors: minutes and agendas, resolutions and presented papers; annual general meeting minutes; annual reports and quinquennial valuations; lists of directors, trustees and secretary; death and burial certificates; notes on memorials related to the Chubb family; statutory declaration and related papers; deed and conveyance of assets; key register for strongroom and seal keys; and papers relating to amalgamation.
Eagle and British Dominions Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyBusiness records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including policy registers; policies and papers relating to individual policies; prospectuses and almanacs; endowment rates; specimen bonuses; rate books; fund: accounts, reports, stock exchange transactions, ledgers, journals, correspondence and papers; aircraft insurance policy; diaries; agents' instructions and commission rates; prospectuses for overseas business; Australia: letters and share certificates; South Africa: details of annual bonuses, correspondence, rate books; and Star bookmarks.
Eagle and British Dominions Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyRecords of Star Life Assurance Society Limited relating to acquisitions and mergers including papers and press cuttings relating to proposed mergers; and prospectuses and proposals of other companies.
Eagle and British Dominions Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyCorporate records of Star Fire Insurance Company including manuscript deed of settlement and board of directors' minute book.
Star Fire Insurance CoBusiness records of Star Fire Insurance Company including fire policies and Secretary's receipt to agent.
Star Fire Insurance CoShares records of Star Assurance Society Limited including register of directors and members, share certificate counterfoils, and register of directors' shareholdings.
Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyFinancial records of Star Assurance Society Limited including ledger, cash book, and bank statements.
Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyCorporate records of Star Assurance Society Limited including memorandum and articles of association, signed agreements with related correspondence, and register of sealed documents.
Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyBusiness records of Star Assurance Society Limited comprising specimen policy: Fine Arts.
Eagle and British Dominions Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd Star Life Assurance Society Ltd x Star Assurance SocietyThe records of the South African Accident Council include copy minutes, meetings papers and circulars of several of the South African accident associations, which were sent back to the South African Accident Council in London. These include records of: the Cape Accident Offices Association; the Transvaal Accident Offices Association; the Workmen's Compensation Insurers' Association of South Africa; the Accident Insurance Council of South Africa; the Southern Rhodesian Workmen's Compensation Insurers' Association; and the Accident Offices Association of Southern Africa.
South African Accident Council