Catalogue description Records relating to the Accident Insurance Association of Scotland Ltd.

This record is held by Aviva Group Archive

Details of AIA
Reference: AIA
Title: Records relating to the Accident Insurance Association of Scotland Ltd.
Date: 1878 - 1879
Held by: Aviva Group Archive, not available at The National Archives
Creator:

Accident Insurance Association of Scotland Ltd.
Physical description: 1 production unit
Administrative / biographical background:

The Accident Insurance Association of Scotland Ltd was founded in Edinburgh in January 1877 to offer insurance against accidental death and disablement. Its business was absorbed by Lancashire and Yorkshire Accident in 1879. In 1906, Lancashire and Yorkshire Accident changed its name to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd and was acquired by the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. Scottish Union and National became part of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd in 1959.

Head Office -
28 Queen Street (1877 - 1878)
67 George Street Edinburgh (1878- 1879)

Manager -
George Todd Chiene (1877 - 1879)

Directors (1877) -
William Smith
George Barclay
Julius Henry Beilby (1879)
Charles Cowan
Kenneth McKenzie
John Cook
James Mylne
Ralph Erskine Scott
Robert Stewart of Inglistone

Branches -
Dublin by 1877
Aberdeen agency (1877)

Facts -
The French language teacher Eugene Chantrelle took out an accidental death policy with the company for £1000 on the life of his wife Elizabeth shortly before he poisoned her in 1878 and tried to make her death look like an accident.
The company was run in conjunction with another Aviva company, National Guarantee and Suretyship Association, and the two shared a manager.

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