---
title: "Cornelius Walford"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Cornelius Walford"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office","Geoffrey Clark","actuarial history","Journal of the Institute of Actuaries"]
---


Nineteenth-century English insurance historian, author of "History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom" (*Journal of the Institute of Actuaries*, vol. 25, 1885) — the scholarly reference most secondary accounts of the Amicable Society's founding-era mechanics trace back to, including the Tontine Coffee-House source this vault's Amicable Society cluster relies on. His original 1885 article is on JSTOR (stable/41135809) but has not been directly read by this vault; it is the strongest available next source for confirming the Society's exact dividend-distribution mechanics (see [[question-verify-amicable-society-dividend-distribution-mechanism-primary]]).

## References

- [[claim-amicable-society-1706-charged-flat-premium-not-graded-by-age]]
- [[claim-amicable-society-1706-fixed-dividend-fund-split-by-shares-held]]