Winston Churchill

Norwich Union’s star-studded customer list. Who’s keeping your customers company on our books?

I discovered a few illustrious policyholders as I dug around in our 200 years’ worth of archives – so your clients are in good company. Churchill was a little worried about getting hurt in the army, and Newton seems to have been very aware of the physics of fire…

John F Kennedy
General Accident (later to merge with Commercial Union) provided motor insurance for the Kennedy family until 1972, including US President John F Kennedy.

Sir Robert Walpole
The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society (later to become part of Commercial Union) insured the house of Robert Walpole in 1710. Walpole went on to become Britain’s first prime minister (although the term didn’t exist back then).

Sir Isaac Newton
The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society insured a house belonging to the famous mathematician and physicist in 1717.

Sir Walter Scott
Our archive includes an 1824 policy on the life of this famous novelist, taken out with the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company (later acquired by the Commercial Union Assurance Company).

Sir Winston Churchill
In 1896, as a young officer in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, Churchill took out a personal accident policy with the Accident Insurance Company (later acquired by Commercial Union).

Freddie Mercury
Insured by the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society Ltd in the 1980s.

Agatha Christie
In the 1950s the Norwich Union Life Insurance Company Ltd insured the crime writer under her married name of Agatha Mallowen.

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