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Lloyd's Coffee House was the principal marine insurance agency.
Property protection as we probably am aware it today can be followed to the Great Fire of London, which in 1666 ate up more than 13,000 houses. The overwhelming impacts of the flame changed over the improvement of protection "from a matter of accommodation into one of criticalness, a change of conclusion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's incorporation of a site for 'the Insurance Office' in his new arrangement for London in 1667".[4] various endeavored fire protection plans came to nothing, however in 1681, financial expert Nicholas Barbon and eleven partners set up the principal fire insurance agency, the "Protection Office for Houses", at the back of the Royal Exchange to safeguard block and edge homes. At first, 5,000 homes were protected by his Insurance Office.[5]
In the meantime, the main protection plans for the guaranteeing of business endeavors got to be accessible. Before the end of the seventeenth century, London's developing significance as a middle for exchange was expanding interest for marine protection. In the late 1680s, Edward Lloyd opened a café, which turned into the meeting place for gatherings in the transportation business wishing to protect cargoes and ships, and those eager to
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