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County Fire Office

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An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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County Fire Office

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Barber Beaumont - vault stone

Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978...

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