What is "tillinghast"

Tillinghast was the world's largest actuarial practice focused on insurance and a unit of Towers Perrin specializing in risk management and actuarial consulting. The Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin provides consulting and software solutions to insurance and financial services companies and advises other organizations on risk financing and self-insurance. In January 2010, Towers Perrin merged with Watson Wyatt Worldwide to form Towers Watson where Tillinghast became part of the risk management group.

Tillinghast is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• A. W. Tillinghast (1874–1942), United States golf course architect
• Charles Carpenter Tillinghast, Jr. (1911–1998), American chairman of Trans World Airlines and chancellor of Brown University
• Charles Foster Tillinghast, Jr. (1871–1948), yachtsman, winner of the 1935 Blue Water Medal
• John Tillinghast (1604–1655), British clergyman
• Mary Tillinghast (f. 1690s), British food writer
• Pardon Tillinghast (1622–1717), early American Baptist pastor and public official
• Richard Tillinghast (born 1940), United States poet
• Wallace Tillinghast (f. 1909–1910), United States man who falsely claimed to have invented a flying machine

It may also refer to a prominent Rhode Island political family, whose members include:

• Charles Foster Tillinghast, Sr. (died 1864), founder of Tillinghast Licht law firm
• Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791–1844), United States political figure from Rhode Island
• Thomas Tillinghast (1842–1921), United States political figure from Rhode Island