IMPERIAL PENSIONS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2105, 22 November 1880, Page 3

IMPERIAL PENSIONS.

As one of the novel features of the next session of Parliament will be Mr Bradlaugh’s attack on the Pension List, it may be interesting to catalogue the State pensions or annuities enjoyed by—not to go into other classes—members of the House of Lords. The Earl of Morloy receives on trust for Earl Amherst a yearly allowance of £3OOO, which has been paid since 1803 ; Lord Blaohford has a yearly allowance of £1066 on account of services at the Colonial Office; Lord Bloomfield has £I7OO a year on account of diplomatic services ; Viscount Combermere gets £2OOO ayear on account of the first lord’s military service. This pension has been paid since 1814. Earl Cowley has £I7OO a-year, fairly earned by his past diplomatic services; Viscount Bvorsley, tho former Speaker of the House of Commons, has a life pension of £4000; Lord Gough (and next heir) has £2OOO a-year on account of military services; Lord Hammond has a special allowance of £2500 per annum on account of services rendered as Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office up to 1873 ; Viscount Hardinga (and next heir) enjoys a pension of £3OOO (military service); the Duke of Marlborough inherits a pension of £4OOO, which has been regularly paid to tho possessor of the title since 1710; Lord Napier, of Magdala (and next heir) has £2OOO a year, this being one of the most recently-conferred pensions. Earl Nelson and his successors are entitled to £3500 a year on account of the memorable services of the hero of Trafalgar. This pension has been in existence for seventy-three years. The late Countess Nelson enjoyed, up to the time of her death in 1879, a separate pension of £ISOO. Lord O’Hagan has a life pension of £SOOO as ex-Lord Chancellor of !'reland. Lord Seaton ha* £2OOO a year (military services). Lord Raglan (and next heir) has £2OOO a year, also for military service, Lady Raglan having a separate pension of £IOOO a year for life.