“New” Lloyd’s

£100. Joshua Readshaw. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Wilkinson. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Brook Watson. One Hundred pounds.
£100. George Curling. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Godhard Hagen. One Hundred pounds.
£100. James Laird. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Samuel Gist. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Gregory Olive. One Hundred pounds.
£100. James Syme. One Hundred pounds.
£100. George Hayley. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Robert Woodmass. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Paul Amsinck. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Travers. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Joseph Bird. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Nicholas Lutyens. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Marmaduke Peacocke. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Joseph Bland. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Tippell. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Richard Peacocke. One Hundred pounds.
£100. James Black. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Newnham. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Robert Hunter. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Edward Reilly. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Julius Angerstein. One Hundred pounds.
£100. James Mather. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Sutton. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Martin H. Van Mierop. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Lewis Mendes. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Walker. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Andrew Perrott. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Joshua Mendes Da Costa. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Campbell. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Halked. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Davis. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Stead. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Black. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Trotter. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Robert Dallas. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Bell. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Edward Woodmass. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Henry Appleton. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Edward James. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Samuel Chollett. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Timothy Bevan, jr., One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Whitmore. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Shoolbred. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Robert Cornthwaite. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Neate. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Robert Bogle, sen., One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Arnall. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Nutt. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William James. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Page Keble. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Thoresby. One Hundred pounds.
£100. James Mowbray. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Greenwood. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Cornelius Donovan. One Hundred pounds.
£100 ……………….. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Auther. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Ward. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Carter. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Kelly. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Benjamin Eyre. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Augustin Meade. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Welbank. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Smelt. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Townson. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Ewer. One Hundred pounds.
£100. David Chollett. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Harley. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Henry Wildman. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Thomas Weston. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Colin Mackenzie. One Hundred pounds.
£100. Simon Fraser. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Wilson. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Read. One Hundred pounds.
£100. William Devaynes. One Hundred pounds.
£100. John Brough. One Hundred pounds.

At the commencement of the year 1772 another meeting was held in the rooms of Pope’s Head Alley, recorded as follows in the minute-books of Lloyd’s:—

“At a General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Plan for the Building or Removing to another House for the more Commodious Reception of the Gentlemen Underwriters,., held at the time and place above mentioned, Present,—Mr. Martin Kuyck Van Mierop in the chair.

Mr. Joshua Readshaw.

„ Brook Watson.

„ James Syme.

„ Nicholas Lutyens.

„ Richard Peacocke.

„ Robert Hunter.

„ Thomas Walker.

„ William Davis.

Mr. Henry Appleton.

„ John Whitmore.

„ Robert Bogle, sen. „ William Black.

„ John Townson.

„ Robert Dallas.

„ Lewis Mendes.

„ Benjamin Eyre.

Mr. John Bogle.

„ George Curling.

„ James Laird.

„ Paul Ansinck.

„ Marmaduke Peacocke. „ James Black.

„ Edward Reilly.

,, Andrew Perrott.

„ William Stead.

„ Edward James.

„ John Shoolbred.

„ Cornelius Donovan.

„ John Travers.

„ John Ewer.

„ Thomas Harley.

„ Robert Woodmass.

„ Page Keeble.

„ George Hayley.

Mr. Godhard Hagen.

„ Gregory Olive.

„ Joseph Bird.

„ Joseph Bland.

„ Thomas Newnham.

„ J. J. Angerstein.

„ John Campbell.

„ Thomas Bell.

„ Timothy Bevan.

„ Robert Cornthwaite.

„ Augustin Mead.

„ William Smelt.

„ David Chollett.

„ Thomas Thorsby.

„ John Nutt.

„ William Welbank.

„ John Wilkinson.

“A motion was made and seconded:—

“‘That a Committee consisting of nine subscribers may be chosen by Ballot to carry the scheme into execution;’ and the Question being put it was Resolved Accordingly. “The Ballot was proceeded upon, when the following Gentlemen were elected, viz.:—

Mr. Martin K. Van Mierop.

„ John Wilkinson.

„ John Town son.

„ Joshua Readshaw.

„ James Black.

Mr. John Ewer.

„ James Bourdieu.

„ John Whitmore.

„ Brook Watson.

“A Motion was made and seconded,—

“‘That any Five of the said Elected do compose a Committee.’ Voted Accordingly.

“A Motion was made and seconded,—

“‘That the Several Subscribers do forthwith pay into the Hands of the said Committee of the Sums for which they have Respectively Subscribed, or so much thereof as the said Committee shall determine it to be proper to make an immediate Call for.’ Voted Accordingly.

“A Motion being then made and seconded,—

“‘That the said Committee may be invested with full powers to provide and Contract for a proper place whereon to carry the said Scheme into Execution, and that they may be at Liberty to apply all or any part of the Money to be paid into their hands, agreeable to the said last Resolution, in the purchase of such place as they shall provide and Contract for, as aforesaid.’ And the Question being put, voted in the Affirmative.”

The following minute stands next on record:—

“At a meeting of the committee at New Lloyd’s Coffeehouse, on Monday, the 30th March, 1772, present—

“Mr. Martin Kuyck Van Mierop in the Chair.

Mr. John Ewer. Mr. Alexander Black.

„ Joshua Readshaw. „ John Whitmore.

„ John Wilkinson.