Background
Edward Rowe Mores was born on 24 January 1731 at Gore Court in Tunstall near Sittingbourne in Kent.
Edward Rowe Mores was born on 24 January 1731 at Gore Court in Tunstall near Sittingbourne in Kent.
He was also instrumental in the founding of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (now commonly known as Equitable Life), and is credited with being the first person to use the professional title actuary in relation to insurance. At Oxford, he was renowned for the range and depth of his learning and for his idiosyncrasies. Besides mathematics, he was interested in such diverse studies as heraldry, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1752.
After James Dodson’s death, Mores became the leader of the group which eventually became the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorship in 1762.
He specified that the chief official should be called the actuary, which is the earliest known reference to the position as a business concern.
