John Weskett was an English underwriter and merchant who contributed to the understanding of insurance law in the eighteenth century. [1]
Weskett was probably born in Leeds. It is believed to have lived between 1730 and 1800.
Weskett offered a definition of the term average in A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws, and Practice of Insurance, (1781): [2]
Weskett has been criticised for normalising the dehumanisation and commodification of enslaved Africans, for example Robin Pearson and David Richardson (2019) in "Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade" [3] or Saidiya Hartman in Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) [4]
John Weskett was an English underwriter and merchant who contributed to the understanding of insurance law in the eighteenth century. [1]
Weskett was probably born in Leeds. It is believed to have lived between 1730 and 1800.
Weskett offered a definition of the term average in A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws, and Practice of Insurance, (1781): [2]
Weskett has been criticised for normalising the dehumanisation and commodification of enslaved Africans, for example Robin Pearson and David Richardson (2019) in "Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade" [3] or Saidiya Hartman in Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) [4]