Phoenix Assurance Ltd
Other Business Names:
- New Fire Office
- Phoenix Fire Office
- Sun Alliance Group
- Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd
- London Guarantee & Accident Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Financial services
Insurance services exc insurance broking & agency
Notes:
Established as New Fire Office 1781. Renamed Phoenix Fire Office 1785 and as Phoenix Assurance Ltd 1901. Initially fire insurance. Life from 1895, accident from 1906 and marine from 1910. Acquired London Guarantee & Accident Co Ltd in 1922. Acquired Norwich Union Fire in 1919 and sold it on in 1925. Expanded by acquisition of numerous insurance businesses. Acquired by Sun Alliance Group 1984
Publications:
- 'Corporate governance in British insurance. How the Phoenix lost Norwich Union and lived to regret London Gurarantee & Accident' in R Fitzgerald & E Abe, Development of Corporate Governance by Trebilcock, Clive
- Insuring the Industrial Revolution. Fire insurance in Britain, 1700-1850 by Pearson, Robin
- Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British insurance. Volume 1, 1782-1870 by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance. Volume 2. The era of the insurance giants by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd, 1782-1915 by Unknown
- Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd. War service list by Unknown
- Phoenix Family Story by Unknown
- 'Phoenix. Financial services, insurance and economic revival between the wars ' in P Clarke & C Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline. Perceptions and realities of British economic performance by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Renascent. A history of the Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd, 1782-1968, and the Pelican Life Insurance Office, 1797-1907 by Hurren, George
- Record of Enterprise by Unknown
- 'The City, entrepreneurship and insurance. Two pioneers in invisible exports, the Phoenix Fire Office and the Royal of Liverpool, 1800-90' in N McKendrick & R B Outhwaite (eds), Business Life and Public policy by Trebilcock, Clive
- Things Phoenix 1782-1982. Phoenix Assurance bicentenary by Croker, K B
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- New Fire Office
- Phoenix Fire Office
- Sun Alliance Group
- Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd
- London Guarantee & Accident Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Financial services Insurance services exc insurance broking & agency
Notes:
Established as New Fire Office 1781. Renamed Phoenix Fire Office 1785 and as Phoenix Assurance Ltd 1901. Initially fire insurance. Life from 1895, accident from 1906 and marine from 1910. Acquired London Guarantee & Accident Co Ltd in 1922. Acquired Norwich Union Fire in 1919 and sold it on in 1925. Expanded by acquisition of numerous insurance businesses. Acquired by Sun Alliance Group 1984Publications:
- 'Corporate governance in British insurance. How the Phoenix lost Norwich Union and lived to regret London Gurarantee & Accident' in R Fitzgerald & E Abe, Development of Corporate Governance by Trebilcock, Clive
- Insuring the Industrial Revolution. Fire insurance in Britain, 1700-1850 by Pearson, Robin
- Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British insurance. Volume 1, 1782-1870 by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance. Volume 2. The era of the insurance giants by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd, 1782-1915 by Unknown
- Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd. War service list by Unknown
- Phoenix Family Story by Unknown
- 'Phoenix. Financial services, insurance and economic revival between the wars ' in P Clarke & C Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline. Perceptions and realities of British economic performance by Trebilcock, Clive
- Phoenix Renascent. A history of the Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd, 1782-1968, and the Pelican Life Insurance Office, 1797-1907 by Hurren, George
- Record of Enterprise by Unknown
- 'The City, entrepreneurship and insurance. Two pioneers in invisible exports, the Phoenix Fire Office and the Royal of Liverpool, 1800-90' in N McKendrick & R B Outhwaite (eds), Business Life and Public policy by Trebilcock, Clive
- Things Phoenix 1782-1982. Phoenix Assurance bicentenary by Croker, K B