Nelson’s Heir Fights For Family’s Pension
9 p.m.) LONDON. January 4. Earl Nelson the great-great-great-®tphew of Britain’s sea hero disclosed kst night how he plans to “refight the Battle of Trafalgar” in Parliament >oon.
He is seeking compensation from the Jtate for the termination nearly five a "° the Nelson family pension. The present Lord Nelson, who is r* « the sixth member of the family bold the title. -He considers he should be paid a sum to compensate him for the of the P cns ion of £5OOO a year. *_ arnount was paid by the State the head of the family for 145 years to !351—the year the fifth died.
Lord Nelson said last night: “The original Nelson Acts said that the pension could not be varied by any monarch or Parliament. “I am drafting a memorandum to send to members of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. “It will be a clear and startling document.” In 1947 the Labour Government introduced legislation ending the pension from the time the fifth Earl died. The present Lord Nelson spent much of his life in Australia and the Far East. He was a gold prospector in Australia and New Guinea and Borneo, a rubber planter in Malaya, and he served with the Australian Imperial Forces in World War I.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27858, 5 January 1956, Page 9
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