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Lloyd's|lɔɪdz|
[f. the name of Edward Lloyd who opened a coffee-house in London in 1688, and supplied shipping information to his clients.]
Name of a London association of underwriters and agency for arranging insurance (formerly marine insurance only, but now nearly all kinds); it also issues daily shipping intelligence, as Lloyd's List (of which the occasional newspaper Lloyd's News was a precursor). Lloyd's Register (of Shipping), an independent society which surveys ships to ensure compliance with standards of strength and maintenance; its annual classified list of such ships. Also Lloyd's policy, an insurance policy underwritten by Lloyd's; so Lloyd's underwriter.
1819M. Edgeworth Let. 4 Mar. (1971) 174 He won {pstlg}30,000 by a bit of gambling insurance on 2 missing..ships. The ships re-appeared... He never could shew his face at Lloyds afterwards. 1829G. Griffin Collegians (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 248 A more crazy and precarious mode of conveyance could not be found, even among the ships marked with the very last letter in Lloyd's list. 1833[see underwriter 2]. 1846[see register n.1 4 c]. 1876F. Martin (title) History of Lloyd's and of marine insurance in Great Britain. 1882J. Ashton Social Life in Reign of Anne I. xviii. 224 Lloyd's was then in Lombard Street, and indeed to this day, on Lloyd's policies, is stated that this policy should have the same effect as if issued in Lombard Street. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 833/2 Lloyd's... Originally a mere gathering of merchants..in a coffee⁓house kept by..Edward Lloyd in Tower Street, London, the earliest notice of which occurs in the London Gazette of the 18th of February 1688. Ibid. XIX. 554/2 In 1696 Edward Lloyd..started a thrice-a-week paper, Lloyd's News, which..was the precursor of the Lloyd's List of the present day. Ibid. XXIV. 957/2 Lloyd's Register, as at present constituted, has existed since 1834. 1922Ibid. XXXI. 492/1 Lloyd's underwriters have shown a great deal of enterprise in accepting risks of a novel kind. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 623/2 The incorporation of Lloyd's as a chartered body on 25 May 1871. |