Provident Mutual Life Assurance

The company was established as the Provident Clerks' Mutual Benefit Association in 1840.^[1] It created the first UK-based policy against death-in-service in 1852, and introduced a system of regular payroll deductions to allow all employees to participate.^[2]

It established new offices at 25–31 Moorgate in London in 1923.^[3] The company relocated to Alresford Place near Winchester, to reduce the risk to its staff from air raids by the Luftwaffe, in June 1939, during the Second World War.^[4]

It had some 500,000 policy holders in 1995, when it was acquired by General Accident in a deal worth £170 million.^[5]