---
title: "E.W. KNAPTON (INSURANCE) LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817
identifier: oo:GB-COH-00802347
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# E.W. KNAPTON (INSURANCE) LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-00802347`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **CASTLE INSURANCE SERVICES (NORTH EAST) LTD** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/bd20e9fb-dd61-53cc-b830-6d5e4fa22057
- **Mr Geoffrey Knapton** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5a48a3b3-1d30-5149-b916-6a1a34ff9764
- **Mr Andrew Knapton** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/40d3aa60-14e3-5a36-9dda-00253e8fe9ae
- **Mr Andrew Knapton** (beneficial owner) — 37.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5736a9cd-bdf1-48b0-a89e-23ef1fa6781e
- **Mr Geoffrey Knapton** (beneficial owner) — 37.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/829bb621-b92c-46a8-8cf1-83c963ea95f3
- **CASTLE INSURANCE SERVICES (NORTH EAST) LTD** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/bd20e9fb-dd61-53cc-b830-6d5e4fa22057

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **23-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `00802347`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1964-04-23
- **Registered office:** 7th Floor Corn Exchange, 55 Mark Lane, London, EC3R 7NE, England
- **SIC:** 65120

### Officers

- HUNTER, Andrew Stewart — secretary · appointed 2022-05-09
- THORNTON, Neil — director · British · appointed 2022-05-10
- KNAPTON, Andrew — secretary · British · appointed 1993-08-01 · resigned 2004-04-01
- KNAPTON, Geoffrey — secretary · British · appointed 2004-04-01 · resigned 2020-05-29
- KNAPTON, Kenneth — secretary · British · resigned 1993-08-01
- CARTER, Duncan Neil — director · British · appointed 2022-05-10 · resigned 2024-05-13
- KNAPTON, Andrew — director · British · resigned 2020-05-29
- KNAPTON, Geoffrey — director · British · resigned 1994-10-01
- KNAPTON, Hilda — director · British · resigned 2003-05-26
- KNAPTON, Kenneth — director · British · resigned 1993-08-01
- KNAPTON, Linda — director · British · appointed 2015-04-05 · resigned 2015-09-10
- YOUNGER, Philip Colin — director · British · appointed 2020-05-29 · resigned 2023-12-31
- YOUNGER, Robert Paul — director · British · appointed 2020-11-12 · resigned 2024-12-31

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Castle Insurance Services](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/bd20e9fb-dd61-53cc-b830-6d5e4fa22057) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2020-05-29
- Mr Geoffrey Knapton — 25–50% shares · individual PSC — ceased 2020-05-29
- Mr Andrew Knapton — 25–50% shares · individual PSC — ceased 2020-05-29

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00802347
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00802347

## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable)

The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent:

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **E.W. KNAPTON (INSURANCE) LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **E.W. KNAPTON (INSURANCE) LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/fb7d97b3-5575-5346-a51c-182faa211817._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._