David Coleridge, chairman of Lloyd’s insurance market during turbulent years – obituary
After big losses he was regarded by disgruntled Names as representing the Lloyd’s Establishment, but he started the process of reform
30 December 2020 • 9:46pm
Coleridge (outside the Lloyd's building in 1992): known for his kindness and lack of vanity
Credit: DAVID GAYWOOD/PA Archive
David Coleridge, who has died aged 88, was chairman of Lloyd’s of London during what he called “one of the darker chapters” in the insurance market’s history.
An urbane Old Etonian who had spent all his working life in Lloyd’s, Coleridge was variously described as appearing to survive on a diet of “port and school puddings” and concealing steely determination “behind a tired teddy-bear look”.