Adam Keir Rodger (1855–1946) was

Coalition Liberal The Coalition Coupon was a letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 United Kingdom general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the Coalition Government. The 1918 election took place in the heady atmosphere of victo ...

MP for

Rutherglen Rutherglen (, sco, Ruglen, gd, An Ruadh-Ghleann) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, immediately south-east of the city of Glasgow, from its centre and directly south of the River Clyde. Having existed as a Lanarkshire burgh in its own ...

from 1918 to 1922. At the age of 27 he started the Scottish Temperance Assurance Society Limited (later known as

Scottish Mutual Assurance Scottish Mutual Assurance was formed in 1883 as The Scottish Temperance Life Assurance Society, intended as the only life assurance company serving exclusively abstainers. It was renamed Scottish Mutual Assurance in 1951 and acquired by Abbey Nation ...

). The business was launched due to Rodger's faith in temperance. The company nearly went bankrupt when its first policy holder died requiring a payment of £1000. The company later sold a policy to

David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was a Liberal Party politician from Wales, known for leading the United Kingdom during t ...

and is now credited to launching the assurance business in Scotland.A History of life as we know it
''The Scotsman'', 21 February 2002. Retrieved July 2010

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* 1855 births 1946 deaths Scottish temperance activists Scottish businesspeople Scottish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 {{Scotland-Liberal-UK-MP-stub