Guide to the Royal Insurance Company Records M1329

Alyssa Tou
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Royal Insurance Company records
source: Kennys Bookshop & Art Galleries
Creator: Royal Insurance Company
Identifier/Call Number: M1329
Identifier/Call Number: 7741
Physical Description: 16 Linear Feet (44 msb, 3 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): bulk 1890s-1930s
Language of Material: English, with a small amount of French language materials

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Arrangement

Records arrived roughly organized by region with most files divided into labeled bags. This order has been maintained.

Biographical / Historical

The Royal Insurance Company was founded in Liverpool, England in 1845, growing through a series of mergers and acquisitions. In 1919, it merged with the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company, at the time the biggest merger in British insurance history. After a merger with Sun Alliance in 1996 it became part of the RSA Insurance Group. From its inception, the Royal Insurance Company engaged in aggressive overseas expansion and was one of the first foreign insurers to open a permanent branch office in South Africa.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Royal Insurance Company records (M1329). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Scope and Contents

Papers related to the activities of the Royal Insurance Company Foreign Department during the time of British and other western European colonization of Africa and the West Indies. Also contains some plans from regions in the South Atlantic, Mexico, and Brazil. Primarily consists of insurance plans and related documents (mostly legislative), including correspondence, maps, and newspaper clippings. In addition to documents generated by the Royal Insurance Company, there is also a small number of pamphlets, reports, and volumes collected from other sources.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Insurance -- History
Kennys Bookshop & Art Galleries

 

Series 1. Insurance plans and documents

 

Subseries 1. Southern Africa

Scope and Contents

South Africa, Rhodesia (modern day Zambia and Zimbabwe), Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), Mauritius, Madagascar
box 1, folder 1

agency application

box 1, folder 2-13

plans

box 2, folder 1-10

plans

box 3, folder 1-12

plans

box 4, folder 1-8

plans

box 5, folder 1-16

plans

box 6, folder 1-13

plans

box 6, folder 14

documents

box 7, folder 1-7

documents

box 8, folder 1-6

documents

box 9, folder 1-7

documents

box 10, folder 1-9

documents

box 11, folder 1-9

documents

box 12, folder 1-6

documents

box 13, folder 1-7

documents

box 14, folder 4

documents

box 14, folder 5-12

plans and agency application, Mauritius

box 14, folder 13-16

plans and agency applications, Madagascar

box 14, Folder 17

loose paper - rates for agricultural risks

box 37, folder 1-2

document 520 - legislation, various drafts

box 37, folder 3

plan

box 40, folder 4-7

plans

box 44, folder 1

plan, Mauritius

box 44, folder 2-3

Tenzer Diamond case, South Africa 1929-1930

 

Subseries 2. Western Africa

Scope and Contents

Portuguese West Africa (Angola), Cameroon, Spanish Guinea (Equatorial Guinea), Gambia, Gold Coast (Ghana), Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone.
box 15, folder 1-13

plans

box 16, folder 1-12

plans

box 17, folder 1-11

plans

box 18, folder 1-10

plans

box 19, folder 1-12

plans

box 20, folder 1

plans

box 20, folder 2-3

documents

 

Subseries 3. Central Africa

Scope and Contents

Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
box 20, folder 4-9

plans

 

Subseries 4. Eastern Africa

Scope and Contents

Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, Tanzania and Zanzibar, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan
box 20, folder 10

agency application

box 20, folder 11-12

plans

box 21, folder 1-14

plans

box 22, folder 1-12

plans

box 22, folder 13-15

agency applications

box 23, folder 1-11

plans

box 23, folder 12-15

documents

box 24, folder 1-15

plans

box 24, folder 16

agency application

box 25, folder 1

agency application

box 25, folder 2-5

plans

box 26, folder 1

plans

box 37, folder 4-5

documents

box 37, folder 6

Mombasa-Mackinnon Road

box 38, folder 1-5

documents

box 40, folder 9

tariff documents

box 41, folder 10

tariff documents

box 42, Folder 8, flat-box 48, Folder 1

plan 7814 - Kenya Investment Co., Nairobi

 

Subseries 5. West Indies

Scope and Contents

In addition to the islands grouped in the regions known as the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Lucayan Archipelago, also Central American countries with a Caribbean coastline, as well as Trinidad and Tobago and Bermuda.
box 26, folder 4-7

documents

box 27, folder 1-20

plans, Jamaica

box 28, folder 1-22

plans

box 29, folder 1-7

plans

box 29, folder 10-12

documents

box 30, folder 1-26

plans

box 31, folder 1-27

plans

box 32, folder 1-21

plans

box 33, folder 1-21

plans

box 34, folder 1-22

plans

box 35, folder 1-24

plans

box 36, folder 1-8

documents

box 36, folder 9

agency application

box 37, folder 7

R.H. Curry and Co., Bahamas

box 39, folder 4-5

London and Liverpool and Globe renewal returns, Belize

box 39, folder 6-7

tariff documents

box 40, folder 8

agency application

box 41, folder 9

Puerto Rico

flat-box 47

London and Liverpool and Globe policies, Belize

 

Subseries 6. Northern Africa

Scope and Contents

Algeria
box 26, folder 2

Alger - Publicite

box 26, folder 3

Mr. Henri Gomar, Oran

box 41, folder 1

Alger Agency file

 

Subseries 7. Other regions and companies

box 26, folder 8

plan - Tidewater Oil Export Co, various

box 26, folder 9

plan, South Georgia

box 26, folder 10

plan, St. Helena

box 26, folder 11-14

plans, Falkland Islands

box 26, folder 15

plan, Brazil

box 29, folder 8-9

plans, Falkland Islands

box 39, folder 1-3

British Cotton Growing Association

box 40, folder 1-2

plans, Mexico

box 40, folder 3

plan - Globe and Rutgers, various risks

 

Series 2. Collected publications and other papers

box 40, folder 10

Socialist Correspondence issue; Rhodesia Railways pamphlet

box 40, folder 11

Ayrton Radcliffe correspondence 1911-1917

box 41, folder 2

Legal Insurance Company in Kenya, documents 1927

box 41, folder 3-4

Rhodesia railway electrification

box 41, folder 5

Rhodesian railway electrification track notes 1965

box 41, folder 6

The Indian Companies Acts - Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Nili Factories

box 41, folder 7

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Khanewal Insurance Co.

box 41, folder 8

"The Porto-Rico Board of Fire Underwriters" 1915

box 42, folder 1

"Report on the Cleveland Clinic Fire" 1929

box 42, folder 2

"Report on the Insurance Statistics of the Colony of Southern Rhodesia" 1933-1934

box 42, folder 3

"Deterioration of Cotton During Damp Storage" 1927

box 42, folder 4

Southern Rhodesia Electricity Supply Commission annual report and accounts 1962

box 42, folder 5-6

Union of South Africa Insurance Act 1923 Summaries of Returns 1925-1935

box 42, folder 7

Nigerian Railway Corporation, Tariff 6 1960s

box 43, folder 1-4

The Council of Fire Insurance Companies in South Africa 1940s

box 43, folder 5-6

South Africa Council Minutes 1941-1942

box 44, folder 4

Jamaica earthquake report of trial 1908

box 44, folder 5-6

Jamaica Disaster correspondence 1907

flat-box 45, flat-box 46

Jamaica earthquake clippings