The History of Insurance Vol 3

Volume 3 LIFE Frederick Hendricks, ‘Contributions to the History of Insurance, and of the Theory of Life Contingencies, with a Restoration of the Grand Pensionary De Wit’s Treatise on Life Annuities’ (1852-3) Edmund Halley, An Estimate of the degrees of mortality of mankind, drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives (1693) Edmund Halley, Some further considerations on the Breslaw Bills of Mortality (1693) Abraham de Moivre, Annuities on Lives (1725) Daniel Defoe, ‘Of Assurances’, ‘Of Friendly Societies’, ‘The Proposal is for A Pension-Office’, An Essay upon Projects (1697) Society of Assurance for Widows and Orphans, An Abridgement of the most Material Things in the Articles of Settlement, agreed and Subscrib'd by the Several Members of the First Society of Assurance for Widows and Orphans (1699) A Scheme for erecting a Friendly Society for insuring lives (c. 1700) Traders’ Exchange House Office For Lives [Charles Povey], Proposals for raising a fund of two thousand pounds per annum by an amicable contribution of four thousand persons each paying 2s. 6d. per quarter (1706) Fair and Easie Proposals for Raising and Improving the Fortunes of Servants, by the Just and Amicable Societies (1710) Proposals of the Beehive Society for Insurance on the Births of Children (1710-11) The Hampshire Society, Farther proposals by the Hampshire Society, for Insurance on Marriages, on the Service of Clerks, Apprentices, and all other Servants, and on Wedding-Days, both by way of Claim, and Monthly Dividend (1711) The Royal British Society (1711) A Short Account of the Rise and present State of the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, Together with the Manner, Terms and Advantages of their Insurance on Lives (1736) Society for Equitable Assurances, A Short Account of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships; Established by Deed, Inrolled in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench (1762)

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives