1845 ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Premium Receipt signed by Directors Robert Biddulph & Alexander Duff Gordon + SIX PENCE Revenue stamp

Robert Biddulph (3 March 1801 – 28 February 1864), a prominent British banker and politician who later became the Chairman of the Economic Life Assurance Society

About Robert Biddulph

Banking Career: He was a senior partner in the London private banking firm Cocks, Biddulph & Co..

Political Career: He served as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford between 1832 and 1837.

Leadership Roles: Beyond his banking and political endeavours, Biddulph spent many years leading the Economic Life Assurance Society as its Chairman during the mid-19th century.

The Economic Life Assurance Society

The society itself was established later, in 1823, based at New Bridge Street in Blackfriars, London. It operated as a mutual life insurance office under an Act of Parliament and was one of the major insurance societies of the Victorian era.

Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, 3rd Baronet served as a prominent Director of the Economic Life Assurance Society around 1845. Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon (1811–1872).

Primary Profession:

High-level British civil servant, serving for many years as a clerk in the Treasury, private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and later a Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

Role at the Society: Long-term Board Director.

Notable Family Connection:

His wife was Lucy (Lucie), Lady Duff-Gordon, a famous intellectual, author, and translator. [