It underwrote the full range of risks including liability, fire, accident, marine, motor, life, contingency and Pluvius (weather) insurance.

[2] For many years its Head Office was at the prestigious address 1 Threadneedle Street, London EC2.

However, a new administrative head office and computer centre was opened in Cheltenham in October 1968.

[2] It continued to trade, under the Eagle Star name, until acquisition by Zurich Financial Services in 1999.

[4] In the 1980s, the company supported the Nature Conservatory and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the successful reintroduction of sea eagles to Scotland.