IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/192-19
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1820-1912
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 28 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Imperial Life Insurance Co

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Imperial Life Insurance Company was established in 1820 for the business of life insurance in the United Kingdom as a sister company to the Imperial Insurance Company, also called the Imperial Fire Insurance Company. At first its offices were in Sun Court, Cornhill and 5 St James's Street, but in 1845 its West End premises moved to 16 Pall Mall and in 1848 its head office moved to 1 Old Broad Street. In 1893 it took over the England Assurance Institution.

In 1902, Imperial Life was acquired by Alliance Assurance and this company merged with Sun Insurance to form Sun Alliance in 1959.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The Imperial Life Insurance Company records comprise minutes, annual reports and accounts, correspondence, prospectuses, register of mortgages and claims by shareholders for shares in Alliance Assurance.

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:

48 hours notice required for access.

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:

Sun Alliance deposited the records of Imperial Life Insurance Company in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1978 and 1994. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For the Imperial Insurance Company see CLC/B/192-18.

Publication note:

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:
January to May 2011.