FARMERS AND GARDENERS HAILSTORM INSURANCE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/192-16
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: FARMERS AND GARDENERS HAILSTORM INSURANCE COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1842-1843
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Farmers and Gardeners Hailstorm Insurance Co

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Company was established in May 1842 by a group of directors of the Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company and was sold to that company in December 1843.

In 1888, the Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company was taken over by the Alliance British and Foreign Fire and Life Assurance Co (renamed Alliance Assurance Company in 1905). Alliance Assurance merged with Sun Insurance in 1959 to form Sun Alliance and London Assurance Group.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Directors' minute book of the Farmers and Gardeners Hailstorm Insurance Company.

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:

The records were deposited by Sun Alliance and London Assurance Group in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library ca.1968. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For the Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company see CLC/B/192-17.

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.