Medical Invalid & General Life Assurance Co.

Firm Details

People & Investments (3)

Director

George Gun Hay

Director

James Thomas Hay

Auditor

Martial Lawrence Welch

Firm Evolutions (1)

1841 →

[The Times]

Notes

1855 Medical, Invalid & General Life Assurance Society, established 1841. Head Offices 25 Pall Mall. Trustees incl. Charles Hopkinson of Regent Street; directors include George Gun Hay. Indian branch (with which has been amalgamated the Oriental Life Insurance Society).

Sources

Straits Times 10 October 1854 Col. 2 [http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes18541010.2.3.2.aspx]

Further Information

People of Interest

David Barclay

1729 - 1809

Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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