GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/104
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Date(s)	: 1844-1882
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 10 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This life assurance company was established in 1844 and incorporated by special act in 1862. It was acquired by National of Ireland in 1882. Its offices were situated successively at 101 Cheapside and 14 Waterloo Place.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society including deeds of settlement; forms of policies; agreements and assignments; and papers relating to clients and policy holders.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Walter Prideaux had been attorney to the Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society, 1844-82, and Ms 8809-8818 were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Prideaux and Sons, solicitors, in 1954. Ms 21191 was donated to the Manuscripts Section by the Goldsmiths' Company in 1967. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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:
November 2010 to January 2011.