Pioneers of British Life Assurance
Details:
- Author(s) Withers, Hartley
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1951
- Pages 112pp
- Publisher Staples Press
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a financial journalist including ex editor of The Economist, and commissioned by United Kingdom Provident Institution. Deals generally with the origins and development of life assurance in 18th and 19th centuries, with chapters on: 'The first life policies'; 'Equitable Society and after'; 'Frauds and failures'; 'Age of the Reform Bill'. Includes a chapter on the history of United Kingdom Provident Institution [pp84-100] and a list of life company formations, 1706-1936 [pp103-6]