DESERVING PENSIONERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 13

DESERVING PENSIONERS

Civil List pensions — the sums varyjpg from £120 to £20— have been granted to many people well known in the world of aTt, letters, and science. "The list," says the Daily Chronicle, "is a good one, and does 'credit to the discrimination of the Prime Minister. Among the grants to the lady relatives of eminent men, those to the widows of Coleridge-Taylor and Professor Alphonse Legroa will perhaps'attract special attention— the one a composer wnose early death cut short a rare blossoming of original music, the other an artist whose nobility of temperament and high ideals of draughtsmanship received less popular recognition than they deserved. "The grant to Mr. Arthur Symona, who is not an old man but struck down by a lamentable illness, is a recognition 6f literary merit veTy conspicuously above the common. Mr. Ebenezer Howaid and Mifls Clementina Black are sotial workers of a type invaluable to the country, who haye devoted to the public abilities that would have been jar betteT paid, though less fruitful, if they had devoted them to their private interests."