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title: "Geoffrey Clark"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Geoffrey Clark"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: [[["entity-amicable-society-for-a-perpetual-assurance-office|Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office"]],[["entity-cornelius-walford|Cornelius Walford"]],"actuarial history","life-insurance culture in England"]
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Historian, author of *Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695–1775* (Manchester University Press, 1999) — described by secondary sources in this vault's Amicable Society cluster as the standard modern academic account of early English life-insurance culture. Was named — in a general further-reading list rather than an inline citation — behind the vault's former claim that the Amicable Society's dividend fund was split proportional to shares held. That claim is now **refuted** by a direct read of Walford 1885, which states the fund was divided equally by the number of deaths ([[claim-amicable-society-1706-fixed-dividend-fund-divided-equally-per-death]]). Clark remains directly unread; as of 2026-07-25 no kept claim rests on him, and whether *Betting on Lives* actually supports the shares-proportional reading is untested — it may equally have been misattributed by the secondary that named it ([[claim-tontine-coffee-house-dividend-proportional-claim-has-no-citation]]).

## References

- [[claim-amicable-society-1706-charged-flat-premium-not-graded-by-age]]
- [[claim-amicable-society-1706-fixed-dividend-fund-divided-equally-per-death]]