[11] In 1768, Mr. Mores quarrelled with and separated from the society.
[12] Sir Richard was a notability of those days, and divided civic
popularity with Beckford, whose colleague he was in the representation
of London in 1761. He was made Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford
University, a custom which would have been perhaps more honoured in the
breach than the observance; and we owe Blackfriars’ Bridge greatly to
the energy and exertions of Sir Richard Glyn, Knight, Baronet, and Lord
Mayor, and--more honourable title still,--director of our first purely
mutual life assurance office. We look in vain for such names as Glyn,
Gosling, Ladbroke, or Beckford, among the sheriffs and aldermen of the
present day.
[13] That the safety of this Society was doubtful may be partly
judged from the fact, that half the policies issued within the first
twenty-five years had been abandoned, probably from doubt of their
ultimate payment.