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Provident Life Office

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A savings bank launched by Barber Beaumont in 1806. We think this went on to become part of Friends Provident.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Provident Life 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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