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To attract customers, the
Pelican Insurance Company spent £375 annually on 1,500 railway posters. Life insurance for the London, although it had begun as far back as 1721, remained quiescent until the early decades of the 19th century, in contrast to the energetic efforts being made at the Pelican
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to design the building. However, a decade after Asgill's death and after the 1796 closure of his bank, it became an ideal location for
Pelican. To adorn its building, Pelican added an allegorical sculptural group to the previously plain facade; the group was designed by
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Phoenix archive collection includes nearly all the surviving company records, as well as papers of the Pelican Life Assurance Company, including the Pelican subsidiaries Star (ST), British Empire Mutual (BE) and Positive (PO).
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After 110 years of business, in 1907 Phoenix reabsorbed its own offspring, Pelican Life
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In 1901, Pelican possessed £1,296,331 in life funds, attracted some £300,000 in new sums assured and earned a total premium income of £121,779. The
Pelican was a proprietary company with share-owners.
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