A colourful
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1. Key dates and milestones
2. Lloyd’s at home
3. Lloyd’s and tradition
4. Lloyd’s and innovation
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Key dates and
milestones
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17th century
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Key dates in this period
1605 Gunpowder Plot
1666 Great Fire of London
Great Fire of London
1688 Glorious Revolution
'Glorious'
Revolution 1688
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Lloyd’s coffee house first appeared in
tower street sometime in the 1680s
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1688 ships and cargos underwritten
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18th century
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Key dates in this period
1712 First steam engine
1750s Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
1775-1783
War of
American Independence
'Glorious'
Revolution
1688
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1771 10Lloyd’s
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19th century
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Key dates in this period
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1837 Victoria crowned Queen of England
1876 Telephone invented
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1871 Act of Parliament
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1887 first non marine risk underwritten
Late 1880s first US risk underwritten
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Lloyd’s business 2006
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Non Marine
Marine
In 2006 non marine
made up over 90% of the
business at Lloyd’s
US
Other
In the same year the US
made up nearly 40% of the
business at Lloyd’s
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20th century
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Key dates in this period
1917-1990 Rise and fall of Communism
1914-1918 1939-1945 The world at war
1969
Man on the
moon
'Glorious'
Revolution
1688
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
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1925 Central Fund created
1939 Lloyd’s American trust established
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Today
Security is of paramount importance to all policyholders and
today the Central Fund and Premium Trust Funds are still two
ways. Lloyd’s backs its ability to pay claims.
Central Fund 2006 = £629 million.
Trust Funds 2004 = £28 billion.
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A string of losses between
1988-92 threaten Lloyd’s future
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Piper Alpha
Asbestosis
Hurricane
Hugo
Exxon Valdez
Hurricane
Andrew
European
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1997
Lloyd’s returns to its roots,
underwriting the world’s
largest ever marine risk
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9/11
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Lloyd’s at home
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1688 Lloyd’s coffee house tower street
1774 The royal exchange Cornhill
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1928 12 Leadenhall street
1958 51 lime street
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1986 one lime street
A building with a strong ‘image’ of quality
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Lloyd’s and
tradition
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ThE
Lutine bell
Traditionally rung to
herald important
announcements
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Nelson
at lloyd’s
From almost his first days
in the Royal Navy in 1771,
Nelson’s Fortunes were
associated with those of
Lloyd’s
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Lloyd’s waiters used to be sent down to the
dockside to bring news of the new ships
The waiters can still be seen at Lloyd’s today
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Lloyd’s and
innovation
Constant originality
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Cuthbert Heath – a real innovator
Cuthbert heath is credited
with a number of firsts at Lloyd's including:
workers
compensation
insurance
An all-risk policy
for jewellery
Contents
insurance
A loss-of-profits
element in
fire policies
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Bankers
blanket bonds
underwrote the
first risk based on
American soil at
Lloyd’s
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Pioneering new risks
 Lloyd’s has always led the way, being the first to
underwrite motor, aviation and satellite insurance
1904
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1911
1960s
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World’s first commercial space flight
 With Lloyd’s legendary appetite for risk,
SpaceShipOne the first private manned space
flight was able to get off the ground
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