PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
50. REGENT STREET.
CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS.
Established 1806.
Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818l.
Annual Income, 150,000l.—Bonuses Declared, 743,000l.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.
President.
The Right Honourable EARL GREY.
Directors.
The Rev. James Sherman, Chairman.
Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry B. Alexander, Esq.
George Dacre, Esq.
William Judd, Esq.
Sir Richard D. King, Bart.
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
Thomas Maugham, Esq.
William Ostler, Esq.
Apsley Pellatt, Esq.
George Round, Esq.
Frederick Squire, Esq.
William Henry Stone, Esq.
Capt. William John Williams.
J. A. Beaumont, Esq. Managing Director.
Physician—John Maclean, M.D. F.S.S., 29. Upper Montague Street, Montague Square.
NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF THE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE INSURED.
Examples of the Extinction of premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses.
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| | | | Bonuses added |
| Date | Sum | | subsequently, to be |
| of | Insured. | Original Premium. | further increased |
| Policy. | | | annually. |
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| 1806 | £2500 |£79 10 10 Extinguished| £1222 2 0 |
| 1811 | 1000 | 33 19 2 Ditto | 231 17 8 |
| 1818 | 1000 | 34 16 10 Ditto | 114 18 10 |
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Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.
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| | | | | Total with Additions, |
| Policy | Date. | Sum | Bonuses | to be further |
| No. | | Insured. | added. | increased. |
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| 521 | 1807 | £900 | £982 12 1 | £1882 12 1 |
| 1174 | 1810 | 1200 | 1160 5 6 | 2360 5 6 |
| 3392 | 1820 | 5000 | 3558 17 8 | 8558 17 8 |
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VALUABLE NEW PRINCIPLE.
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The following are the Publications of the Society for the year 1850-1.
I. A SELECTION FROM THE WILLS Preserved in the Will Office at Bury St. Edmund's. Edited by Samuel Tymms, Esq.
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