Harben, Henry

Title

Sir

First name(s)

Henry

Surname

Harben

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Member of the College Council (1893-[1895])

Education & professional details

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Storesman, Harben and Larkin, Whitechapel
• Assistant to a surveyor
• Prudential Mutual Assurance, Investment and Loan Association (Secretary, Resident Director1851-)
• Chair, Prudential Mutual Assurance, Investment and Loan Association (1905-1907)
• Member of the Hampstead vestry
• Representative of Hampstead on the Metropolitan Board of Works from (1880-1889)
• Representative of Hampstead on the London County Council (-1984)
• Mayor of Hampstead (1900)
• Honorary Colonel, 1^st Cadet Battalion City of London Yeomanry, Royal Fusiliers ^{Ref: *1}

Professional activities

• Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries (1864-)
• Member of the Carpenter’s Company (1878)
• Master of the Carpenter’s Company (1893-)
• Funder, Rustington Convalescent Home for Working Men (1897)
• Funder, Hampstead Central Public Library
• Funder, a wing of the Hampstead General Hospital
• Funder, London City Mission, Hampstead Branch
• Funder, Headquarters of the 1^st Cadet Battalion City of London Yeomanry, Royal Fusiliers
• Justice of the Peace, Sussex
• Deputy Lieutenant, Sussex
• High Sheriff, Sussex (1898) ^{Ref: *1}

Publications

The Mortality Experience of the Prudential Assurance Company in the Industrial Branch 1867–1870 (1871)

A History of the Prudential Assurance Company (1880)

Personal details

Date of birth

24 August 1823

Place of birth

Bloomsbury, London

Date of death

1911

Place of death

Warnham Lodge, Horsham, Sussex

Family details

Eldest child of Henry, a wholesale cheesemonger from Bloomsbury, London, and Sarah. Married to Ann Such. Children were Mary Woodgate (b. 1847) and Henry Andrade (b. 1849). Second marriage to Mary Jane Bulman Cole. ^{Ref: *1}

Notes

Insurance pioneer specialising in providing assurance for the working classes. ^{Ref: *1}