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Some highlights of the Equitable Life Archive

Included alongside the business archive of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships are significant manuscripts of the work of Thomas Bayes, James Dodson, Richard Price and William Morgan.

Please follow links for more infomation about the manuscripts below:

Notebook of Thomas Bayes, ca. 1747-1760

James Dodson's tables of premiums, 1756

James Dodson's, ‘First Lecture on Insurances’, 1756

Letters of Richard Price 1768-1771 to the actuary John Edwards [on actuarial calculations].

Richard Price, ‘Observations on the proper method of keeping the accounts [at] the Society for Equitable Assurances…’, 1774

William Morgan, Yearly computation of expected deaths and of accounts showing the state of the Society 1768-1827 made according to the plan suggested by Richard Price.

All the above manuscripts feature in a new digital presentation on disk, Chance and Assurance: manuscripts of the work of Thomas Bayes, James Dodson, Richard Price and William Morgan, published by the Actuarial Profession in December 2010 and available from the Profession's eShop.