A sketch of the history of the science of life contingencies, with special reference to the origin and construction of mortality tables

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A survey of actuarial history identifying the key 'life tables' of life expectation drawn from mortality data sources encompassing: 'Ulpian's Table' of late Roman times, John Graunt's observations (1662); Edmund Halley's mortality table derived from Breslau (1693) through to data systematically compiled and analysed by the Institute of Actuaries in 1869.