Person    | Male  Born /1/1856  Died 31/5/1937

Sir Thomas Neill

Categories: Politics & Administration

Countries: Ireland

Sir Thomas Neill

Irish-born insurance executive and pioneer of National Health Insurance.

In 1894 he became general manager of the London, Edinburgh and Glasgow Insurance Company and joined the board of directors of the Pearl Insurance Company when it took over the former company in 1910. When the National Health Insurance scheme came into force in 1911, Neill was appointed one of the three Insurance Commissioners. In 1915 he resigned to become chairman of the National Amalgamated Approved Society, holding the post until his retirement in 1936. He campaigned for the introduction of a Ministry of Health, which was founded in 1918, after which he became chairman of the Ministry's Consultative Council on Health Insurance Approved Societies until 1924. For this work, he was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.

Many of the organisations which he managed were based at 30 Euston Road at one time or another.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Thomas Neill

Creations i

Foundation Stone NAAS

This plaque refers to the Euston Road extension to the original 1908 Beresfor...

Read More

Other Subjects

Earl Waldegrave

Earl Waldegrave

Politician. President of the Committee for the erection of the Florence Nightingale Hospital in 1909.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Frederick Frye

Frederick Frye

Grocer and Liberal politician. Full name Frederick Charlwood Frye. Started a chain of shops in 1870 and by 1894 was running 50 stores across England and Ireland. Was a member of the Metropolitan Bo...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Johann Most

Johann Most

Anarchist and journalist. Born Germany. Forced into exile, first France and in 1878 to London. Here he founded a newspaper, Freiheit/Freedom in which he printed his anarchist views. Imprisoned for ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Germany, USA

1 memorial
Councillor W. R. Johnson

Councillor W. R. Johnson

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Dockwra

William Dockwra

Merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. He was also an independent slave trader who attempted to break the monopoly that the Royal African ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

1 memorial

Previously viewed

6 Burlington Gardens - La Place

6 Burlington Gardens - La Place

W1, Burlington Gardens, 6

There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill

W8, Campden Hill Square, 50

Evelyn Underhill, 1875 - 1941, Christian philosopher and teacher, lived here, 1907 - 1939. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm

Born Vienna, educated England, granted English citizenship 1865. Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland (a member of the royal household in Scotland) 1881 - 1890. Best known for the head of Queen Victor...

Person, Sculpture, Austria

15 memorials
Rfn.  F. H. Breeze

Rfn. F. H. Breeze

London Rifle Bgde

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Edward Dannreuther

Edward Dannreuther

Pianist and writer on music. Born in Strasbourg. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatoire, and moved to London in 1869 where he achieved great success performing the works of Beethoven and Chopin. F...

Person, Music / songs, France, Germany

1 memorial