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The first Insurance Institute was established in Manchester, with a particular focus on fire insurance, given the number of textile manufacturers in the city. A Royal Charter incorporating the Chartered Insurance Institute was granted on 17 January 1912.
The Chartered Insurance Institute's history website includes a virtual tour of the Insurance Hall.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chartered Insurance Institute
This building was opened by His Majesty King George V accompanied by Her Maje...
Richard D'Oyly Carte founded the business. Married Helen. Their son Rupert inherited the business and passed it on to his daughter, Bridget.
Hotelier. Born Switzerland, son of a peasant farmer. Started work as a waiter and worked his way up, in Paris, Vienna, Lucerne, etc. Came to London in 1889 as the manager of Richard D'Oyly Carte's...
On 1 September 1773 A. Bell Booksellers published a volume of poems by Phillis Wheatley. At this time book publishers and sellers were often the same people.
Founded in Hatton Garden in May 1848 as The Prudential, Investment, Loan, and Assurance Association. The army of premium collection agents was for many years identified with the Prudential as the "...
Shopkeeper and philanthropist. Born Camberwell. Aged 17 he and his brother Thomas, left their home in Newington Green and began work in London as errand boys in a drapers. In 1870 he opened a store...
Pilot and railwayman. Co-pilot with the former British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and later British Airways. Managing director of London Underground Ltd between 1988 and 1998, and chairman...
2024: a Jewish Heritage Trail in Islington was launched.
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
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