Collectie GB 0074 CLC/B/144-01 - LEGAL AND GENERAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED

823 production units.

GB 0074 CLC/B/144-01 1888-1929 Collection 823 production units. Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd x Legal and General Life Assurance Society

The firm was established by six lawyers in 1836 as Legal and General Life Assurance Society with offices at 10 Fleet Street, City of London. It changed its name to Legal and General Assurance Society in 1919. Its head office moved to Temple Court, Queen Victoria Street in 1962. The company initially dealt with life assurance business, but grew to become a major financial services company also providing pensions, investments and general insurance plans.

Records covering the life assurance business only, consisting primarily of policy registers, were deposited by Legal and General Assurance in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 22 September 1977. These records were withdrawn by the depositor on 31 August 1990 and returned to the Manuscripts Section, as a gift, on 19 January 1996, along with the main archive of the Company, (except the board minutes, which were a deposit rather than a gift), at which point it was decided that a sample of only two volumes of building society policy registers would be kept out of an original series of 106 volumes (Ms 18478). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Legal and General Assurance Society Limited, including constitutional records; minutes and annual reports and accounts; shareholding; internal administration; general accounts; life office accounts; fire office accounts; accident office accounts; fire and accident accounts; statistical analyses; investments and estate department accounts; policy registers; operational records; records relating to staff, offices and so on; and records of subsidiary companies.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

January to May 2011. Financial service industries Insurance services Business records Finance Insurance Life insurance Information sources Documents Insurance records Service industries Assurance companies Companies Enterprises Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd x Legal and General Life Assurance Society UK Western Europe Europe

Records covering the life assurance business only, consisting primarily of policy registers, were deposited by Legal and General Assurance in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 22 September 1977. These records were withdrawn by the depositor on 31 August 1990 and returned to the Manuscripts Section, as a gift, on 19 January 1996, along with the main archive of the Company, (except the board minutes, which were a deposit rather than a gift), at which point it was decided that a sample of only two volumes of building society policy registers would be kept out of an original series of 106 volumes (Ms 18478). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Legal and General Assurance Society Limited, including constitutional records; minutes and annual reports and accounts; shareholding; internal administration; general accounts; life office accounts; fire office accounts; accident office accounts; fire and accident accounts; statistical analyses; investments and estate department accounts; policy registers; operational records; records relating to staff, offices and so on; and records of subsidiary companies.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

• Engels

• Latijn

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels