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To the Reader
IT can scarcely be expected of any purely business
concern that its annals should furnish matter for exciting or amusing
literature; but a brief chronicle of prosperous enterprise may not be
devoid of interest to those who have experienced the vicissitudes of
financial endeavour, and have realised in their own persons the strain of
anxiety inseparable from the initial stages, as well as the glow of
success after difficulties have been overcome. It is fitting, also, that
the members of the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society should be
in possession of such information as will enable them to honour the
memories of those men who, at a time when the principles of life assurance
were but dimly understood, had the hardihood to launch a scheme of that
nature, the foresight and sagacity to steer it through the perils of
infancy, and to hand it on to succeeding generations endowed with the
sound constitution which has caused it to attain to its present vigour and
scope.
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