Category: Insurance underwriters

Nord Krauskopf
Nord Krauskopf (January 26, 1922 – August 3, 1986) was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race car owner whose career spanned from 1966 to 1977. He was the owner of K&K Insurance and a part of the business s
Tin-Yuke Char
Tin-Yuke Char (July 4, 1905 – June 17, 1990) was a Chinese-American historian and businessman who was interested in the history of the Hakka people and Chinese people in Hawaiʻi.
Richard Shepherd
Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (6 December 1942 – 19 February 2022) was a British politician who was Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015. A Eurosceptic, Shepherd wa
Dale Erdahl
Dale EmMons Erdahl (November 1, 1931 – May 16, 2005) was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. Erdahl was born in Frost, Minnesota. He went to the Blue Earth County Public Schools and gradu
Neville Dixey
Charles Neville Douglas Dixey (7 November 1881 – 6 March 1947), known as Neville Dixey, was a British Liberal Party politician who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London three times, as an underwriter he s
Ian Posgate
Ian Richard Posgate (31 March 1932 – 7 July 2017) was an English insurance underwriter at Lloyd's of London, who was one of the highest earners in Britain in the 1970s, but who was later banned from t
Herb Denenberg
Herbert S. Denenberg (November 20, 1929 – March 18, 2010) was an American television journalist, lawyer, consumer advocate, and insurance regulator. He is best remembered by audiences in the Philadelp
Harry Leinweber
Harry C. Leinweber (January 6, 1907 – March 19, 1992) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1961 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Donald S. Malecki
Donald S. Malecki (May 15, 1933 – December 12, 2014) was an author and speaker noted for expertise in Property and Casualty insurance.
Ralph Hiscox
Ralph Hiscox CBE (1907–1970) was an Underwriter at Lloyd's of London, a founding partner of Roberts & Hiscox in 1946, and the chairman of Lloyd's of London 1967–68. Hiscox served in the RAF from 1939
Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (August 22, 1802 – September 14, 1886) was an American fur trader, insurance underwriter, and land speculator. He was influential in the development of the city of Chicago a
V. John Krehbiel
Victor John Krehbiel (1905–1997) was the head of the Republican Party of California, and served as the American ambassador to Finland (1973–1975), a position he was accused of buying with campaign con
William K. Boardman
William Knight Boardman (February 3, 1915 – March 18, 1993) was a Republican Alaska legislator who served as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968. Born in Iowa, Boardman wa
Cuthbert Heath
Cuthbert Eden Heath OBE, DL (23 March 1859 – 8 March 1939) was a British insurance businessman, underwriter, broker, and syndicate owner at Lloyd's of London from 1880 until 1939. A relentless innovat
Richard Bache
Richard Bache (September 12, 1737 – April 17, 1811), born in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, immigrated to Philadelphia, in the colony of Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine
Ellwood Walter (businessman)
Ellwood Walter (August 16, 1803 – May 7, 1877) was president of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company in New York City for 28 years. The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was organized in April 18
Octavius Wigram
Octavius Wigram (18 December 1794 – 20 May 1878) was an English businessman and ship owner in the City of London, a member of Lloyds and Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.
Ernie Jones (politician)
Ernest William Jones (October 6, 1910 – May 15, 2005) was a Canadian politician. He was an alderman on Ottawa City Council from 1950 to 1952, and was a member of the Ottawa Board of Control from 1955
Edward L. Sittler Jr.
Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. (April 21, 1908 – December 26, 1978) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Edward Sittler was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and m
Frank Gross
Frank George Gross, OMC (May 23, 1919 – January 13, 2006) was a philanthropist awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship (OMC) one month after his death in 2006. He is the only Chatham-Kent resid
Martin Copley
Martin Copley (1940 – 30 July 2014) was a British-born Australian conservationist and philanthropist who established the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), an organisation which purchases and mana
Frederic Bennett
Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett DL (2 December 1918 – 14 September 2002) was a British journalist, author, barrister and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 35 years. He w
Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke (/tʊk/; 28 February 1774 – 26 February 1858) was an English economist known for writing on money and economic statistics. After Tooke's death the Statistical Society endowed the of econom
Greville Spratt
Sir Greville Douglas Spratt, GBE, TD, JP, DL (1 May 1927 – 13 December 2012) was a British underwriter who was the 660th Lord Mayor of London from 1987 to 1988.
Robert MacMillan
Robert "Judy" Gordon MacMillan (3 April 1865 – 3 April 1936) was a Scottish international rugby union player.
Frederic Bolton
Sir Frederic Bolton (1851–1920) was an English shipowner and underwriter, he was elected Chairman of Lloyd's of London in 1906.
Peter Corby
Peter John Siddons Corby (8 July 1924 – 5 August 2021) was a British inventor. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after leaving school and served as a flight engineer with No. 78 Squadron
George Faber (British politician)
George Henry Faber (10 December 1839 – 6 April 1910) was a British insurance underwriter and a Liberal Party politician. Faber was born in Camberwell, and became a member of , of Cornhill, underwriter
John Ewington
John Ewington OBE (14 May 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a British insurance underwriter who was the general secretary of the Guild of Church Musicians for 35 years from 1978 to 2014, and is widely credit
Julius White
Julius White (September 23, 1816 – May 12, 1890) was an American businessman and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as U.S. Minister (ambassado
Burns & Wilcox
Burns & Wilcox is an independent insurance wholesale broker and managing underwriter founded in 1969 by Herbert W. Kaufman. Its corporate headquarters is located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Burns &
Edward Titley
Edward George Titley (7 August 1911 – 17 July 1943) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve officer. After attending the University of Cambridge where he played firs
Herbert Weston Edmunds
Herbert Weston Edmunds (1881 – 27 September 1954) was a British marine insurance underwriter and philatelist. Edmunds was president of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1950–53. Edmunds was educated
Tom Fink
Thomas A. Fink (August 26, 1928 – June 4, 2021) was an American Republican politician from Alaska. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1987 to 1994 and Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1