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Merchants, mariners and mavericks<br />
Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years<br />
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Merchants, mariners and mavericks<br />
Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years<br />
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Merchants, mariners and mavericks<br />
Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years<br />
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<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=5"> Contents Contents Acknowledgements </a>
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<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=7"> Foreword Foreword – Dr Richard Ward T</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=8"> Chapter One `A regular and universal system': T</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=9"> Chapter One </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=10"> Chapter One </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=11"> Joseph Addison, founder of The Spectator, a daily</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=12"> sums on English men of war that carried rich priz</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=13"> Chapter One all subscribers, to bind the s</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=14"> Chapter One </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=15"> Agents' actions on behalf of underwriters as a fo</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=16"> Chapter One An Agent's bright idea In 1811</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=17"> Chapter One latitude to deal with situatio</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=18"> Chapter One Printed with the list of Agent</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=19"> Chapter Two The end of war and the challenges o</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=20"> Help for a hero's mistress After Admiral Nelson </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=21"> The family had long been involved in Anglo- Dutch</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=22"> Chapter Two Joseph Marryat, Chairman of Lloy</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=23"> Gompertz's rejection and the end of the monopoly </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=24"> duties and settling disputes. In 1817, the Commit</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=25"> Chapter Three Fire, the Falklands and `free Age</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=26"> Chapter Three </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=27"> Left: The Royal Exchange on fire 1838 </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=28"> receive shipping lists free of postage came to an</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=29"> Chapter Three Signing of the `Amsterdam Lut</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=30"> `Every way a free agent': The salaried Agent syst</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=31"> Chapter Three An early telegraph machine t</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=32"> extension of these facilities took place at home </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=33"> trade. In 1859 it was opened to trade with the Un</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=34"> Chapter Four `This unceasing record': Agents an</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=35"> carried on during 1872 but by the end of the year</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=36"> Chapter Four </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=37"> The Committee was not particularly quick to recog</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=38"> Below: Early image of the Suez Canal Heard around</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=39"> Again, Hozier's foresight proved vital. The syste</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=40"> Chapter Five `Capable at a moment when most peo</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=41"> Chapter Five </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=42"> Chapter Five Clarifying maritime law The i</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=43"> these Agents, explaining the decision and asking </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=44"> sporadic reports from members of the Committee, o</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=45"> Chapter Five he stayed where he was. `Majo</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=46"> Agents, Inglefield said, should be on the lookout</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=47"> Chapter Five Below: Sir Wilfred Grenfell, L</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=48"> member of the Broad family to hold the Falmouth A</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=49"> Chapter Five informing the Agents that con</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=50"> matters, and laid down a procedure for supervisin</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=51"> 1928 Underwriting Room circa 1935 </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=52"> Chapter Six `Some got away…of others there is n</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=53"> were falling, roofs crashing in, bombs dropping; </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=54"> Chapter Six Agents at war Ventry Calling, </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=55"> Chapter Six Having entered the war in Dece</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=56"> him, the Japanese authorities dropped the case ag</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=57"> Chapter Six the British Empire (OBE) from </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=58"> Chapter Seven `He remains resilient and optimis</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=59"> Chapter Seven who famously spoke of the `I</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=60"> Chapter Seven An act of God In the Lloyd '</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=61"> arrangement had been extended to many other Agenc</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=62"> Chapter Seven April fool in Vienna B.A. `D</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=63"> aviation department who were involved in a crash </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=64"> Chapter Seven Havana, Cuba </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 65" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=65"> Chapter Seven Our man in Havana Cuba's po</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 66" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=66"> Chapter Eight `Something that mystified outside</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 67" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=67"> the network needed to be modernised and rationali</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 68" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=68"> Chapter Eight Right: Partners of Edward Co</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 69" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=69"> new governance structure. In time, this saw the a</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 70" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=70"> Cooper Brothers, the Buenos Aires Agency, are the</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 71" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=71"> Chapter Eight Awards to Agents On a stormy</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 72" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=72"> Chapter Eight contacting Marine Technical </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 73" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=73"> Left: The current Lloyd 's building above s</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 74" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=74"> Chapter Nine Things move rapidly: The Agency ne</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 75" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=75"> Chapter Nine </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 76" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=76"> Chapter Nine Below: Damage at the port of Kam</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 77" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=77"> Chapter Nine The vessel RENA aground off Taur</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 78" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=78"> Striving for excellence remains a constant goal. </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 79" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=79"> Chapter Nine </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 80" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=80"> Bibliography Bibliography Minutes of </a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 81" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=81"> Controllers of Agencies Controllers of Ag</a>
<a title="Merchants, mariners and mavericks: Lloyd's Agents, the first 200 years page 82" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9e49eab?page=82"> Current Lloyd's Agents that have provided </a>
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