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A Brief Account of the Beaumont Trust, and Its Founder, J.T. Barber Beaumont, from Letters and Other Extracts, Collected by W.S. Beaumont

A Brief Account of the Beaumont Trust, and Its Founder, J.T. Barber Beaumont, from Letters and Other Extracts, Collected by W.S. Beaumont


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... John Thomas Barber Beaumont, more generally known as "Barber Beaumont," was the founder of the County Fire and Provident Life Offices, with which he continued connected down to his death in 1841. He was a remarkable man in many respects. He devoted his youth to historic painting, and secured medals therefor from the Royal Academy, and from the Society of Arts. At the time of the threatened Bonaparte invasion he raised a rifle corps in defence of England, and urged that the people should be armed as sharpshooters. To show what could be done with practice, he held a target on one occasion in Hyde Park while his entire corps fired at it from a distance of 150 yards. In connection with the above offices he founded a Provident Association for the benefit of working men. He did much to help forward properly constituted friendly societies and savings banks. He fearlessly attacked the Independent and West Middlesex scheme, at a time when it appeared to be flourishing and powerful; and he bore the cost of an action commenced against him by the concoctors of that swindle. Regarding his own companies, he warned the proprietors not to be too much elated with their first success. By such careful means he built up the shares of those companies to the values they afterwards assumed. In 1806 he founded the "Provident Institution or Bank of Savings," in Covent Garden; an association the first of the class, and one which has been productive of much good. He wrote an essay explaining the working of the institution, also An Essay on Provident Banks. Mr. Beaumont was, we believe, the author of a pamphlet published in 1814, Life Insurance: Important Facts, showing ihe successive Reductions that have taken place in the Terms for the Insurance of Lives, and the probability of ul...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235606854
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235606856
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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