Show lloyds misty history now that mr air mckenna la Is looking to lloyds for a substantial contribution to tile the revenue from war profits ts it la is interesting to recall that the greatest maritime institution in the world Is named not otter after a financier or but after a humble cat co fee eo house keeper of 0 lloyds history says the london chronicle little Is known beyond the fact that lie ho kept a erce house in ill lombard street at t the h e beginning ot of t the lie eighteenth century which frow from its proximity to the royal exchange came to bo be the favorite assembling place ot of tho the underwriters the farst mention of ills hla house occurs in a poem the wealthy shopkeeper published in 1700 when to lloyds coffee house to go he never falls to r read d the I 1 otters letters and attena the sales bales in 1710 S steele eele dated some numbers of 0 th the 0 from lloyds and add eon also makes mention of the house in ill t the he spectator |