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WELLINGTON REVERSIONARY ANNUITY AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-199

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WELLINGTON REVERSIONARY ANNUITY AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

Date(s): 1853-1856

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was established in 1852 for the purpose of life assurance, annuities and the purchase of reversions. This business was sold to the India and London Life Assurance Society in 1856 and the company was wound up in 1873.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One file.

Conditions governing access:

48 hours notice required for access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Assurance companies | Companies | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries
Life insurance | Insurance | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names
Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance Society

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