Civil List

FB 's poverty (which had made Charles Causley and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund ) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List for services to literature.

In spite of this business, EF was the recipient of charitable supplements to her income. She was allotted £100 from the royal bounty in November 1886, and was granted an annual pension of £50 from...

During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.

MBE was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone for help out of the Civil List .

CB was awarded a Civil List pension of £75.

AS was alert to her financial status, and in 1856-7 challenged the tax assessment that she received. The Civil List pension she received on 3 August 1870 improved her financial situation.

AMH 's Civil List pension, awarded in 1868, helped the Halls' financial situation considerably. On 20 September 1874, when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they received both a substantial lump sum and an annuity...

Southey left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List pension of £200. It appears that the pension was...