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        • UF Insurance companies
        • UF Compagnie d'assurance
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        311 Archival description results for Insurance

        GB 0074 CLC/B/192-37 · Collection · 1838

        York and London Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprising instruction booklet for agents.

        York and London Fire and Life Assurance Co
        GB 0074 CLC/L/AC · Collection · 1980

        The 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.

        Worshipful Company of Actuaries
        GB 0074 CLC/B/055-31 · Collection · 1894-1941

        Records 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 Ltd
        GB 0074 CLC/B/055-30 · Collection · 1919-1941

        Records 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 Ltd
        GB 0074 CLC/B/224 · Collection · 1916-1954

        Records 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 brokers
        GB 0074 CLC/B/166-04 · Collection · 1859-1894

        Whittington 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 Co
        GB 0074 CLC/B/055-29 · Collection · 1910-1934

        Board minute books of Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited.

        Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Ltd
        GB 0074 CLC/B/227-199 · Collection · 1853-1856

        Draft 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 Society
        GB 0074 ACC/1290 · Collection · 1712-1968

        Records 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 , brewers
        Walford, Cornelius: letter
        GB 0096 AL255 · Fonds · 1882

        Letter from Cornelius Walford of 86 Belsize Park Gardens, London to Professor [Herbert Somerton] Foxwell, Cambridge, 14 Sep 1882. The J P Esqre referred to in the preface is James Postlethwayte. He is supposed to have calculated the table of probability contained in the work.

        Autograph, with signature.

        Walford , Cornelius , 1827-1885 , writer on insurance
        VICTORY INSURANCE COMPANY
        GB 0074 CLC/B/144-12 · Collection · 1919-1983

        Records of the Victory Insurance Company, comprising annual reports and accounts, a prospectus, and a register of members.

        Victory Insurance Co
        GB 0074 ACC/2670 · Collection · 1954-1982

        Records 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 Ltd
        LCC/VA/GOAD · Collection · 1923-1957
        Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

        Goad Fire Insurance Plans used by the London County Council Valuation Department, 1923-1957. The plans in this series consist of two sets of plans bound in large volumes which cover the London area. Those numbered I - XII map in detail the central areas of London north and south of the River Thames, and include the docks and the Regents Canal. The second set are lettered A - K (there is no letter I) and only survey in detail the 'congested areas' in the rest of the County of London. These latter plans extend into Essex to a certain extent but omit parts of south and much of south-east London.

        Each volume consists of plans in numerical order beginning with one or more key plans. Detailed information given includes street names and name changes, house numbers, street widths, the nature of any business carried out, the names of occupiers of large buildings or large numbers of buildings, the structure of buildings, existing fire precautions, dimensions of rooms and where relevant, information about floors other than the ground floor. Much of the structural information is conveyed by signs. Very occaisionally a section of the building is shown.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        GB 0074 CLC/B/079-04 · Collection · 1825-1957

        Records 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 Society
        GB 0074 CLC/B/055-28 · Collection · 1846-1872

        Records of the United Kingdom Life Assurance Company comprising out-letter book and Directors' reports.

        United Kingdom Life Assurance Co
        CLC/B/005/CA02 · sub-fonds · 1897-1915

        Share 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 General
        CLC/B/005/CA03 · sub-fonds · 1900-1945

        Financial 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 General
        CLC/B/005/CA01 · sub-fonds · 1897-1916

        Corporate 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 General
        GB 0064 XX(63028.1) · Collection · 1833-1950

        Records of the Union Marine And General Insurance Company Ltd, consisting of journals, 1883-1904, 1906-1908, 1910-1911, 1913-1950; ledgers, 1905-1913, 1917-1925, 1934-1937, 1940-1942; instructions to agents, 1884-1914; foreign agents' applications, 1902-1945; agents' accounts, 1924-1929; correspondence and general papers, 1914-1945. In addition, there are some records relating to the Northern Maritime Insurance Co Ltd, with which the company was linked. These consist of journals, 1918-1925, 1926-1945, and some miscellaneous records of the Phoenix Assurance Co, 1940-1951.

        Union Marine And General Insurance Company Ltd
        UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY
        GB 0074 CLC/B/055-27 · Collection · 1714-1959

        Records 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/TR02 · sub-fonds · 1940-1967

        Shares 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 Ltd
        CLC/B/005/TR01 · sub-fonds · 1940-1967

        Corporate 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 Ltd
        GB 0074 CLC/B/017-31 · Collection · 1939 Oct 24- 1941 Dec 31

        Minute book of the Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance Committee, 1939-1941.

        Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance Committee
        CLC/B/005/TM02 · sub-fonds · 1904-1967

        Shares 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 Ltd
        CLC/B/005/TM01 · sub-fonds · 1904-1981

        Corporate 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 Ltd
        CLC/B/005/TM04 · sub-fonds · 1904-1982

        Business 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 Ltd
        GB 0074 ACC/2450 · Collection · 1866-1977

        Records 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 Society
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/F · Collection · 1710-2007

        Papers 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/H · Collection · 1844-1967

        Papers 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/B · Collection · 1710-1947

        Papers 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/A · Collection · 1706-1891

        Constitutional 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/DB · Collection · 1908-1961

        Reports 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/DD · Collection · 1684-1961

        General 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/DA · Collection · 1836-1966

        Correspondence 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 Group
        GB 0074 CLC/B/192/DC · Collection · 1725-1984

        Records 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 Group
        GB 0074 ACC/2305/07-4 · Collection · 1933-1964

        Property 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 , brewers
        GB 0096 AL360 · Fonds · 1859-1901

        A 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).

        Stuart and Blackwood, legal writers and insurers, of Peebles, Scotland.
        GB 0074 CLC/B/107-20 · Collection · 1891-1955

        State 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 Ltd
        CLC/B/005/ST06 · sub-fonds · 1918-1957

        Staff 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/ST05 · sub-fonds · 1892-1990

        Premises 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/ST01 · sub-fonds · 1843-1990

        Corporate 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/ST04 · sub-fonds · 1843-1990

        Business 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/ST07 · sub-fonds · 1852-1913

        Records 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 Society
        CLC/B/005/STF01 · sub-fonds · 1845-1853

        Corporate records of Star Fire Insurance Company including manuscript deed of settlement and board of directors' minute book.

        Star Fire Insurance Co
        CLC/B/005/STF04 · sub-fonds · 1846-[1990]

        Business records of Star Fire Insurance Company including fire policies and Secretary's receipt to agent.

        Star Fire Insurance Co
        CLC/B/005/STN02 · sub-fonds · 1934-1969

        Shares 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 Society