Catalogue description Records of General Hail Storm Insurance Society

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Title: Records of General Hail Storm Insurance Society
Description:

The General Hail Storm Insurance Society was established in Norwich on November 21 1843. It was acquired in 1898 by the Norwich & London Accident Insurance Association, which was subsequently taken over in 1908 by Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society.
Date: 1843 - 1898
Held by: Aviva Group Archive, not available at The National Archives
Creator:

General Hail Storm Insurance Society
Administrative / biographical background:

Constituents/subsidiaries
National Economic Hail Storm Assurance Company (1855 - 1857)
Equitable Hail Insurance Company (1865 - 1867)
County Hailstorm Insurance Company (1847 - 1892)

Business
A prospectus of 1843 gives the objectives of the society as to "grant policies of insurance against loss by Hail Storm to crops of Corn, turnips, and other Farming and Gardening produce, as well as Glass in Dwelling houses, Hot-houses, Green-houses, and other buildings."

Staff/ officials
Directors (c 1843)
Samuel Bignold (also of Norwich Union)
John Wright
John Skipper
F J Blake
Roger Kerrison
Robert Pratt
Thomas Salter
James Neave,
John Cann,
J Hilling Barnard

Secretary
E C Morgan (1843 - pre 1846) (joint secretary)
Charles Suckling Gilman (1843 - 1888) (joint until c 1846)
Charles R Gilman (1889 - 1898)

Head office premises - Norwich
Bethel Street (1843 - 1850)
Fisher's Lane St Giles Street (1850 - 1898)

London office
26 Birchin Lane c 1843

Agencies
Cheadle (1843)
Cambridge (by 1849)
According to company literature by 1875 it had agents all over Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire

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