An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain.
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County Fire Office
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Barber Beaumont - vault stone
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978...
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