Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

The UK's chartered professional body for actuaries (the Institute of Actuaries, founded 1848, later merged with the Faculty of Actuaries). Matters to this vault as a primary-source venue in its own right: it freely hosts, directly on actuaries.org.uk, page-range PDFs of its own Journal of the Institute of Actuaries back-catalog — including the first installment of Cornelius Walford's 1885 "History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom," found this session where the equivalent JSTOR copy returned HTTP 403 without institutional access. A stronger and cheaper access route than JSTOR for this vault's actuarial-history cluster, worth checking first for any future Journal of the Institute of Actuaries citation.

References

• claim-walford-1885-essay-freely-hosted-installment-predates-amicable-society-1706

• 2026-09-16: also hosts, on actuaries.org.uk, a "List of available journals" PDF (58 pages, alphabetical by title) and a separate pre-1901 library catalogue PDF — both candidates for confirming whether the Institute holds a physical or interlibrary-loan copy of its own 1874 Journal of the Institute of Actuaries run, unread past their opening pages this session. See question-verify-northampton-table-overestimated-mortality-primary.