United Kingdom · Western Europe
SCOTTISH WIDOWS LIMITED
Profile highlights
15 badgesEarliest recorded founding in this market’s class
Among 5 entries with documented founding years; 1815. Coverage is incomplete and ties share this badge.
Earliest recorded founding in this market
Among 11 entries with documented founding years; 1815. Coverage is incomplete and ties share this badge.
Group spans 2 directory continents
Lloyds Banking Group: 2 markets across 2 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.
Part of a group
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Group listed in 2+ markets
Lloyds Banking Group: 2 markets across 2 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.
200+ years since founding
Recorded founding year: 1815. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3476358
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Composite
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Domestic private
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Group spans 2+ directory regions
Lloyds Banking Group: 2 markets across 2 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.
Founding year documented
Recorded founding year: 1815. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3476358
Part of a listed group
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Register identifier recorded
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Official website available
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Founded in the 1800s
Recorded founding year: 1815. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3476358
Listed in Europe
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UK-incorporated insurer; activities: Capital redemption, Life and annuity, Linked long-term, Marriage and birth, Pension fund management, Permanent health
Official sources
Website reported by Wikidata (CC0), last checked 2026-09-13 — not confirmed against the PRA register, which does not publish one for this entity.
Popularity index
Since 1 Sept 2026
98out of 100
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 68 of 448 insurers
- Likely range
- 97–99
- Confidence
- Low
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At a glance
Profile data from Wikidata (CC0), last checked 2026-09-13. The register itself is verified against the PRA.
- Founded
- 1815
- Lloyds Banking Group listed on
- London Stock ExchangeLLOYNew York Stock ExchangeLYG
- Class of business
- CompositeLicensed to write both life and non-life business under one entity.
- Parent / group
- Lloyds Banking GroupLicensed in 2 countries, 3 entities in this directory.
- Ownership
- Domestic privateOwned by domestic private shareholders with no cross-border parent.
- Regulator
- Prudential Regulation Authority (Bank of England) / FCA (PRA)bankofengland.co.uk
- Local currency
- GBP
- Register identifiers
- National ID 181655
- Basis
- Class: Derived from PRA permitted activitiesGroup: Compiled
- Source basis
- PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Aug 2026
- Country verification
- Verified - full PRA register · PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Sep 2026 (insurers-list-2609.csv, retrieved 8 Sep 2026), 502 authorisations: 448 filed here and the 54-firm Gibraltar section filed under Gibraltar
- Identifiers
- slug united-kingdom-scottish-widows-limited · row 1410/api/v1/insurers/united-kingdom-scottish-widows-limited.json