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EDINBURGH AND LEITH
-WEST OF ENGLAND FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY;
Established at Exeter 1807.
OFFICE FOR THE METROPOLIS— 20 BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRURS.
EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. ~ CAPITAL, £600,000.
Eight Hon. Earl of Devon. Sir T. D. Acland, Bart.
Eight Hon. Earl of Fortescue. Sir J. T. B. Duckworth, Bart.
Eight Hon. Earl of Moeley. Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
FOUE^FIETHS, or EIGHTY PEE CENT., of the Profits are divided amongst the Assured every
Five Years.
VOLUNTEER CORPS.
Any Person whose Life is Insured in this Company is at liberty to serve in any Volunteer Corps
within the United Kingdom without prejudice to the Policy.
LOANS.
The Company also advances Money upon its Policies, and upon approved Personal Security in
connection with Life Insurance.
Medical Fees and Policy Stamps are paid by the Company.
Life Income .... £148,446
Accumxilated Funds . . . £1,428,797
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Tlie Premiums in this Branch of the Company's Business are as low as is consistent with safety.
Losses arising from Explosions by Gas are made good by this Company.
Steam Thrashing-Machines allowed to be used on Farms without any extra charge. No Charge
for Policy Stamps.
Exeter, March 1879. CHAELES LEWIS, Secretary and Actuary.
Applications for Agencies are requested from Persons of respectability in Towns where the Com-
pany is not represented.
AGENTS AT EDINBURGH.
Messrs. LINDSAY, PATEESON, & CO., W.S., 63 George Street.
Mr. JAMES EENTON, S.S.O., 14 Frederick Street.
GUARDIAN
FIRE kUD LIFE ASSURANCE GOMPm.
HEAD OrEICE— 11 LOMBARD STEEET, LOIDOIT, E.G.
ESTAB LI SH E D 1 821.
Subscribed Capital,
Paid-up Capital,
£2,000,000
1,000,000
Total Invested Funds, upwards of
Total Annual Income,
£2,894,000
465,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The Directors invite attention to the exceptionally good Security offered by this Company. The
Life Eeserves are unusually large, while the moderate rate of expenditure and other advantages will
bear favourable comparison with similar features of other Offices.
NON-FORFEITUEE OF POLICIES. — The insured by ordinary Whole-Life Policies may receive on
surrender of their Policies a fully paid up Assurance or an equivalent value in cash.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances effected upon nearly every description of Property at home and abroad.
SCOTTISH BRANCH.
GLASGOW.
OFFICE— 120 WEST GEOEGE STEEET.
J. H. 'E'LD'Ei'R, Secretary for Scotland.
EDINBURGH.
Medical Officer — Angus Macdonald, M.A., M.D., 29 Charlotte Square.
Chief Agent — ^William Duncan, S.S.C, 18 York Place.
AGENTS.
J. Stormonth Darling, W.S., 52 Frederick St.
G. Thomson, S.S.C, 22 Coates Crescent.
James Drummond, C.A., 2b St. Andrew Square.
J. H. M. Bairnsfather, Law Agent, 34 St.
Andrew Square.
J. Gellatly, Law Agent, 8 Bank Street.