It is well known as part of the folklore of marine insurance that the Marine Insurance Act 1906 was part of the conventionally lauded statutory codification of major parts of our commercial law drafted by Sir Mackenzie Chalmers, that his draft marine insurance code was initially published at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Bill and book form during the long gestation of the Act as successive Bills were presented to Parliament, and that his book successfully continued, alongside more conventional texts, as the standard introductory book to the law of marine insurance. In fact, as with most things, the picture is not quite so simple. The book and Act was not solely originated by Chalmers but was a product of work contributed by, importantly, someone from the