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An Act to make certain Provisions and Regulations in respect to the Exercise, within England and Ireland, of their Office by the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland; and also to extend such Provisions and Regulations to the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and ...
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The three pension lists of England, Scotland and Ireland were consolidated in 1830, and the civil pension list reduced to finance the remainder of the pensions being charged on the Consolidated Fund. In 1887 Charles Bradlaugh MP protested strongly against the payment of perpetual pensions, and as a result a committee of the House of Commons ...
There had been a long practice beginning in the Roman empire to the modern nation states of providing pension to those who had served in the military. [2]Cotton Mather, the 18th century New England Puritan minister and author, proposed that elderly people should be "pleased with the retirement which you are dismissed into".
A pensioner is a person who receives a pension, most commonly because of retirement from the workforce. [1] This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom (along with OAP , initialism of old-age pensioner ), Ireland and Australia where someone of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner'.
An Act to enable Her Majesty to grant Furlough Allowances to the Bishops of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay who shall return to Europe for a limited Period after residing in India a sufficient Time to entitle them to the highest Scale of Pension. (Repealed by Government of India Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 61))
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Tunney, Western Australia, named after James Tunney, son of Sergeant John Tunney who was an enrolled pensioner guard and had settled in the area. Patrick Stone, a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, was enrolled pensioner guard. Owen Hackett was an enrolled pensioner guard, and his pensioner cottage is now heritage listed.