Scottish Widows 1811-ongoing

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Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society

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Scottish Widows

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On 25th March 1812, some eminent Scotsmen gathered at the Royal Exchange Coffee Rooms, on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. They included members of the aristocracy, and well known figures such as the scientist and mathematician, John Playfair; the industrialist and social reformer, Robert Owen; and the bookseller and publisher, Archibald Constable. They met to discuss the formation of a life assurance company. At that time, with no welfare state, the death of a breadwinner could ...