CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 8

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

STATE AID FOR AUTHORS AND SCHOLARS. A British Parliamentary paper issued recently contains the following list of all " pensions granted during the year ended\ fi March 111, 1912, and payable, under tho li provisions of Section 'J (1) of tho Civil n List Act, lniO:- ' n £ " Dr. Bernard Pyne Grcnfcll, in rccog- c nition of his researches and dis- « coveries as an archaeologist and a classical scholar, and in con- h federation of tho breakdown in a his health 100 h Mr. Arthur Hughes, in recognition i of his merits as a painter 100 t Mr. Frank Thomas Bullen, in con- ' v sideration of the literary merits v of his writings 100 r Mr. Cecil Sharp, in consideration of i his services iu tho collection and s preservation of English folk songs 100 j Miss Mary Rosamond Earle, in con- f sideration of the services of her t father, the late Professor John j Earle, to English literature and 1 philology, and of her state of | health and inadequate means of i support 60 t Mr. John Arthur Blaikie, in con- c sideration of his literary merits I. and inadequate means of support 50 1 Miss Eleanor Sarah Sowerby and c Miss Margaret Evelyn Sowerby, I jointly, and to the survivor of ( them, iu consideration of tho i value of tho botanical works of ( their father, tho late Mr. J. E. i Sowerby, and of their necessitous 1 circumstances 50 | Antonietta, Lady Russoll, in recogni- j lion of the literary nbilities and 1 the public services of her hus- < hand, the lato Sir William i - Howard Russell, C.V.0., and in I consideration of her straitened : circumstances .» 80. i Ellen, Lady Orchardson, in con- i sideration of the eminence as a ; painter of her husband, the late Sir William Quillcr Orchardson, i E.A., and of her inadequate i means of support 80 I Mr. Charles Francis Keary, in re- ] cognition of tho merits of his , writings 70 i Mrs. Eleanor Podmore, in consideration of the valuable contributions of her husband, tho late Mr. Frank Podmore, lo_ tho critical study of Spiritualism, and of-her inadequate means of support GO Mrs. Charlotte Asbbnrnham Jones, in recognition of the valuable 'researches of her husband, tho late Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, in geology and palaeontology, and in consideration of her reduced circumstances 50 Miss Catherine Lucy Saunders and Miss Emily Harriet . Saiuiders, jointly and to the 'survivor of them, in recognition of the ser-. vices of their father, the. late 111. Trelawney. Saunders, in tho advance of cartography on 6cien- . tifio. lines '." 50 Sirs. Bertha Julia Skinner, in recognition of the valuable services of her husband..tho lato Mr. Arthur Banks Skinner, in connection with the art collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in consideration of the circumstances in which she has been placed by his premature death .......... 50 Miss Alice Shield, in recognition.of the merits of her historical writings .- ; 40 Miss Faridah Green, in recognition of the valuable public services ■ of her lato Sir William Kirby Green, and in consideration of her necessitous circumstances id Dr. George James Burch, in recognition of the valuer of his researches in physics and physiology, and in consideration ' of his inability to continue his professional work owing to illliealth 120 Total '. .£I2OO