Prudential Assurance Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment & Loan Association
- British Prudential Assurance
- Prudential & Consolidated Assurance
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:
Major insurance business established in 1848 as Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment & Loan Association. Renamed British Prudential Assurance in 1860, Prudential & Consolidated Assurance in 1865 and Prudential Assurance Co Ltd in 1867. Initial focus on life insurance and, from 1919, general insurance. 1879-1906 built head office at Holborn Bars to designs of Alfred Waterhouse which was later extended and substantially rebuilt in 1980s
Publications:
- 'Achievement of an ideal in social welfare. The Prudential Assurance Co Ltd' in T E Ellis, British Commerce and Industry. The post war transition, 1919-1934 by Elias, T E
- Alexander Korda, Prudential Insurance and British film finance in the late 1930s by Street, Sarah
- Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905 by Maltby, Sally, Sally MacDonald & Colin Cunningham
- Century of Service. The story of the Prudential, 1848-1948 by Barnard, R W
- Evolution of Holborn Bars, 1879-1993 by Unknown
- Foucault, discourse and the birth of British public relations by Heller, Michael
- History and Appreciation of the Prudential Chief Office Buildings in Holborn Bars by Cunningham, C J K
- History of the Prudential Assurance Company by Unknown
- Lady clerks at the Prudential. The beginning of vertical segregation by sex in clerical work in nineteenth century Britain by Jordan, E
- Large scale data processing in the Prudential, 1850-1930 by Campbell-Kelly, Martin
- Large Scale Organisation. A first hand account of the day to day organisation and management of large industrial undertakings and public services by Milward, G E (ed)
- National Insurance Acts, 1911-1947. The approved societies and the Prudential Assurance Co by Heller, Michael
- Property Masters. A history of the British commercial property sector by Scott, Peter
- Prudential and its Money by Fox, W
- 'Prudential Assurance Co Ltd' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- Prudential Assurance Co. Roll of honour by Unknown
- Prudential Assurance Co. Visit to the new offices, Holborn Bars by Unknown
- Prudential in 1933 by Unknown
- Prudential Past and Present. Story of the rise and progress of the Prudential Assurance Corp by Plaisted, H
- Prudential Staff and the Great War by Boisseau, H E
- Salute to Service. The Prudential in the Second World War by Hosking, George L
- Sense of Security. 150 years of Prudential by Dennett, Laurie
- There's More to Prudential. The story so far by Unknown
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment & Loan Association
- British Prudential Assurance
- Prudential & Consolidated Assurance
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:
Major insurance business established in 1848 as Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment & Loan Association. Renamed British Prudential Assurance in 1860, Prudential & Consolidated Assurance in 1865 and Prudential Assurance Co Ltd in 1867. Initial focus on life insurance and, from 1919, general insurance. 1879-1906 built head office at Holborn Bars to designs of Alfred Waterhouse which was later extended and substantially rebuilt in 1980sPublications:
- 'Achievement of an ideal in social welfare. The Prudential Assurance Co Ltd' in T E Ellis, British Commerce and Industry. The post war transition, 1919-1934 by Elias, T E
- Alexander Korda, Prudential Insurance and British film finance in the late 1930s by Street, Sarah
- Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905 by Maltby, Sally, Sally MacDonald & Colin Cunningham
- Century of Service. The story of the Prudential, 1848-1948 by Barnard, R W
- Evolution of Holborn Bars, 1879-1993 by Unknown
- Foucault, discourse and the birth of British public relations by Heller, Michael
- History and Appreciation of the Prudential Chief Office Buildings in Holborn Bars by Cunningham, C J K
- History of the Prudential Assurance Company by Unknown
- Lady clerks at the Prudential. The beginning of vertical segregation by sex in clerical work in nineteenth century Britain by Jordan, E
- Large scale data processing in the Prudential, 1850-1930 by Campbell-Kelly, Martin
- Large Scale Organisation. A first hand account of the day to day organisation and management of large industrial undertakings and public services by Milward, G E (ed)
- National Insurance Acts, 1911-1947. The approved societies and the Prudential Assurance Co by Heller, Michael
- Property Masters. A history of the British commercial property sector by Scott, Peter
- Prudential and its Money by Fox, W
- 'Prudential Assurance Co Ltd' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- Prudential Assurance Co. Roll of honour by Unknown
- Prudential Assurance Co. Visit to the new offices, Holborn Bars by Unknown
- Prudential in 1933 by Unknown
- Prudential Past and Present. Story of the rise and progress of the Prudential Assurance Corp by Plaisted, H
- Prudential Staff and the Great War by Boisseau, H E
- Salute to Service. The Prudential in the Second World War by Hosking, George L
- Sense of Security. 150 years of Prudential by Dennett, Laurie
- There's More to Prudential. The story so far by Unknown