William Sutton

Nineteenth-century actuary, author of "On the Method used by Dr. Price in the construction of the Northampton Mortality Table," Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, vol. 18, issue 2 (January 1874), pp. 107–122 — a paper written for the actuarial profession's own journal, specifically about how Richard Price built the table.

Matters to this vault as the identified-but-unread Tier 1–2 primary that would most directly settle question-verify-northampton-table-overestimated-mortality-primary. Cambridge Core's own page for the article confirms it exists at that citation and opens with "The Northampton Table has played such an important part in the life insurance transactions of this country," but serves the body as "Temporarily unavailable"; the JSTOR mirror (stable/41131700) would not render for a non-interactive fetch, and the Internet Archive's Journal of the Institute of Actuaries holdings skip volume 18 among the neighbouring volumes (10, 14, 16, 20, 23, 25, 32, 35...) it does hold. A specific, nameable access gap, recorded so a future session with library access knows exactly which door to knock on.

References

• claim-price-northampton-table-overestimated-mortality-favouring-insurers — the claim his 1874 paper would most directly settle