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Lord Byron is often said to have received a civil list pension, but his mother was the actual recipient. [17]) As of 1911, a sum of £1,200 was allotted each year from the Civil List, in addition to the pensions already in force. From a Return issued in 1908, the total of Civil List pensions payable in that year amounted to £24,665.
New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Act 1840 or the New Zealand Government Act 1840. ... High Court of Admiralty (England) Act 1840. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 66. 7 August 1840.
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 ...
For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.
a second class pension not exceeding £1,200, in respect of service of not less than six years or its equivalent, in an office of the second class; a third class pension not exceeding £800 a year, in respect of service of not less than ten years in an office of the third class. [1]
Timeline of changes to the age at which eligible persons receive the United Kingdom State Pension. Timeline (1908–2030) 1] † [2] Notes This page ...
The number of married pensioners living in poverty fell from 22% in 2005, when Labour last won a general election, to 14% in 2010.
Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England begins publication. William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Catherine. William Whewell's book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history, in which he introduces the words "Physicist" and (for the second time) "Scientist". [17] [18] [19]