Pension Sentence Examples
We had full medical insurance and a pension program.
Twelve hundred francs' pension for life.
After the death of his wife (1588) he went to Spain, where on the recommendation of the duke of Feria he received a pension from the king.
They had collared a suspect in their search for the pension check thief.
Voters, meanwhile, are hoping the upcoming presidential elections will spell an end to the economic downturn and their pension woes.
In the succeeding autumn he returned to England, where his loyalism was rewarded by a government pension.
Fred O'Connor, at 74, had long since finished his working career, a calico collection of jobs which changed with the telling, none of which gave him a pension.
He wrote an account of this three years' journey, for which he was rewarded by Suleiman with an office and a pension.
The king made him a knight and gave him a pension.
In 1905 the maximum pension was raised to £26 a year.
AdvertisementThe last gained him the friendship of the Marchesa di Barolo, the reformer of the Turin prisons, and in 1834 he accepted from her a yearly pension of 1200 francs.
Parliament also passed a measure granting ex-President Steyn a pension of £I 000 a year and ex-President Reitz a pension of X500.
This meant the certainty of a pension.
His own caprices interposed some delay in the conferring of a pension which George III.
The discrepancy between the fees paid by patients and the salaries received by nurses, especially in London, has occasionally excited unfavourable comment, but it is to be remembered that the nurses are maintained when out of work or ill, and have other advantages; many institutions either provide pensions or assist the members of their staff to join the Royal National Pension Fund.
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The bishop consented and promised a small pension; and in August 1495 Erasmus entered the "domus pauperum" of the college of Montaigu, which was then under the somewhat rigid rule of the reformer Jan Standonck.
The faithful Batt had sought a pension for him from his own patroness, Anne of Borsselen, the Lady of Veere, who resided at the castle of Tournehem near Calais, and whose son Batt was now teaching.
But as nothing promised at once, Erasmus accepted Mountjoy's offer, and thus a tie was formed which led Mountjoy then or a few years later to grant him a pension of £20 for life.
The archduke Ferdinand offered a pension of 400 florins, if he would only come to reside at Vienna.
AdvertisementAs a subject of the emperor, and attached to his court by a pension, it would have been convenient to him to have fixed his residence in Louvain.
He also established large pension funds - in 1 9 01 for his former employes at Homestead, and in 1905 for American college professors.
She received from parliament a grant of 30,000 a year in compensation for the loss of her dower-lands, and the king added a similar sum as a pension from himself.
His loyalty to King George (son of Ernst August) would not permit him to take the oath of allegiance to the victorious king of Prussia, and he was therefore placed on the retired list, though with the full amount of his salary as pension.
At the same time the viceroy wisely came to an agreement with Sayri Tupac, the son and successor of the Inca Manco, and granted him a pension.
AdvertisementLater he went to the court of the Hamdanid Saif addaula, from whom he received a warm welcome and a small pension.
The Aga Khan reciprocated the British commander's confidence and friendship by giving repeated proofs of his devotion and attachment to the British government, and when he finally settled down in India, his position as the leader of the large Ismailiah section of Mahommedan British subjects was recognized by the government, and the title of His Highness was conferred on him, with a large pension.
Defoe says he received no pension, but his subsequent fidelity was at all events indirectly rewarded; moreover, Harley's moderation in a time of the extremest party-insanity was no little recommendation to Defoe.
In April 1877 public attention was called to the distress of three maiden ladies, directly descended from Defoe, and bearing his name; and a crown pension of X75 a year was bestowed on each of them.
In 1845 a Britton Club was formed, and a sum of £1000 was subscribed and given to Britton, who was subsequently granted a civil list pension by Disraeli, then chancellor of the exchequer.
For these various services he received until 1800 a substantial pension from the Spanish authorities, being officially known in their correspondence as "Number Thirteen."
Upon Wayne's death in 1796, Wilkinson became general in command of the regular army, retaining his rank as brigadier and likewise his Spanish pension.
He was then declared lieutenant-general of the forces, and, in addition to his pay as colonel, had a pension settled on him.
In 1661 he was created Lord Newark, and received a pension of £50o per annum.
Escaping by way of Strassburg he found an asylum in England, where he was made a prebendary of Canterbury, received a pension from Edward VI.'s privy purse, and composed his chief work, A Trajedy or Dialogue of the unjust usurped Primacy of the Bishop of Rome (1549) This remarkable performance, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the translation of John Ponet, bishop of Winchester, a splendid specimen of nervous English.
This he had to resign on the Restoration, but was rewarded with a small pension, which was continued to his widow after his death.
For the former, a strong opponent of his administration, he procured a pension of boo a year.
On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.
In 1871 she obtained a civil-list pension of £roo in recognition of her merits.
At the dissolution he surrendered his priory without compunction to the crown, and received a liberal pension.
President Cleveland made large use of the veto power upon bills passed by Congress, vetoing or " pocketing " during his first term 413 bills, more than two-thirds of which were private pension bills.
The most important bill vetoed was the Dependent Pension Bill, a measure of extreme profligacy, opening the door, by the vagueness of its terms, to enormous frauds upon the treasury.
At the same time expenditures were largely increased by liberal pension legislation, and the government's purchase of silver bullion almost doubled by the provisions of the new Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
The Curia, following its accustomed policy, rewarded his zeal with a pension of 50 gulden.
Zwingli prevailed on the council to forbid his entrance into Zurich; and even then the pope argued that, so long as the preacher was still receiving a papal pension, he could not be a formidable adversary, and he gave him a further sop in the form of an acolyte chaplaincy.
As a senator he consistently opposed the increasing monarchism of Napoleon, who, however, gave him in 1809 a pension and commissioned him to write a work on fortification for the school of Metz.
Nurses are eligible for a pension after 10 years' service, the amount increasing up to the age of 55 when retirement is compulsory.
In 1850 he resigned his headship of the Teachers' Seminary, and was awarded a pension.
In August 1670 he was again in Paris, and Arlington proposed that he should receive a pension from Louis; Charles II.
He accepted a pension from the French emperor and spent the rest of his life between his wife and Godoy.
For this action the French government, which granted the amir a pension of £4000, bestowed on him the grand cross of the Legion of Honour.
After he left America his life was attainted, and his property, valued at £40,000, was confiscated by the Pennsylvania Assembly, a loss for which he received a partial recompense in the form of a small parliamentary pension.
The state board enacts by-laws for the administration of the system; its decision of controversies arising under the school law is final; it may suspend or remove a county superintendent for inefficiency or incompetency; it issues life state certificates, but applicants must have had seven years of experience in teaching, five in Maryland, and must hold a first-class certificate or a college or normal school diploma; and it pensions teachers who have taught successfully for twenty-five years in any of the public or normal schools of the state, who have reached the age of sixty, and who have become physically or mentally incapable of teaching longer, the pension amounting to $200 a year.
In 1879 an estimate made of all Federal war expenses up to that date, including pension charges, interest on loans, &c., showed a total of $6,190,000,000 (Dewey, Financial History of the United States).
He was created a viscount and granted a pension of £4000 for life.
He had been imprisoned for political reasons, for he did not become a Protestant till after his release, and then found that his priory had been destroyed in 1534 He obtained a pension from Geneva, and was four times married, but owing to his extravagances was always in debt.
While still young, he went to visit Abu Tammam at Homs, and by him was commended to the authorities at Ma'arrat unNu`man, who gave him a pension of 4000 dirhems (about X90) yearly.
The Congress deported him to Italy, and granted him a pension.
She received a pension of ioo,000 crowns, which was largely spent in supporting Jacobite exiles.
In the United States the principal matters in this department are the management of the public lands, the conduct of Indian affairs, the issue of patents, the administration of pension laws, of the national census and of the geological survey, and the collection of educational information.
In 1877 he was given a civil list pension.
In 1 2 to he was in favour with King John, from whom he received a pension, and whom he accompanied to Ireland.
This pension clause has since been repealed.
Sir John Hippisley appealed to George III., who on the warm recommendation of Prince Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex, gave orders for the annual payment of a pension of £4000 to the last of the Royal Stuarts.
Michaelis's Introduction to the New Testament, with notes of his own, in which he may be said to have introduced German methods of research into English biblical scholarship. His History of the Politics of Great Britain and France (1799) brought him much notice and a pension from William Pitt.
On his return to England in 1551 King Edward assigned him a pension of loo crowns, which he afterwards exchanged for the rectory of Upton-uponSevern, Worcestershire.
Returning to Evesham he was there when the abbey was surrendered to the king (27th of January 1540); and then, with a pension of fro a year, he once more went back to Oxford, but soon after became chaplain to Bishop Bell of Worcester and then served Bonner in that same capacity from 1543 to 1549.
His fall in 1801 was softened by the grant of an earldom (he was created earl of Rosslyn 21st April 1801, with remainder to his nephew), and by a pension of £4000 per annum.
Additional rewards followed, including the renewal of his exchequer auditorship (though he may have continued to enjoy it since his first appointment) and ten pounds to his pension.
This enterprising and deserving man, on the completion of his journey in 1875, was rewarded by the Indian government with a pension and grant of land, and afterwards received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Companionship of the Star of India.
The French king, Louis XIV., and after his death the regent Orleans, gave her a pension, and protected her against her creditors.
In 1764 he was made secretary to General Johnstone at Pensacola, West Florida, and when he returned, two years later, to England, after a quarrel with Johnstone, he was allowed to retain his salary as a pension.
There he was presented to the king, Louis XIII., and a pension of 3000 livres conferred upon him.
The few and miserable triumphs of Sweden during the Seven Years' War were due almost entirely to young Sprengtporten, and he emerged from it with a lieutenant-colonelcy, a pension of X20, and the reputation of being the smartest officer in the service.
He received a pension of £2400 a year on his retirement and was allowed the extraordinary privilege of a guard of honour as long as he lived.
In 1833 Lord Grey's government conferred on him a pension of £150, raised in 1836 to 300.
This position he was not long to hold; and the fierce exultation of Mary at the news of his murder gave to those who believed in her complicity with the murderer, on whom a pension was bestowed by her unblushing gratitude, fresh reason to fear, if her liberty of correspondence and intrigue were not restrained, the likelihood of a similar fate for Elizabeth.
He settled finally in Edinburgh in 1769, having now through his pension and otherwise an income of £1000 a year.
In 1726 he was appointed governor to the young prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel, and in 1735 returned to Lausanne with a good pension.
He even went the length of bestowing on Hobbes (but not always paying) a pension of £loo, and had his portrait hung up in the royal 4 Wallis's pieces were excluded from the collected edition of his works (1693-1697), and have become extremely rare.
In 1648 the General Assembly urged him to complete the work he had designed, and voted him a yearly pension of 800.
The least that he could expect was a pension or a sinecure place; and, if he showed any aptitude for politics, he might hope to be a member of parliament, a.
A pension he had defined as pay given to a state hireling to betray his country; a pensioner as a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey a master.
A pension of three hundred a year was graciously offered, and with very little hesitation accepted.
Some of his friends hoped that the Government might be induced to increase his pension to six hundred pounds a year, but this hope was disappointed, and he resolved to stand one English winter more.
Of the contribution one half is paid by the employer and the other by the employee, whose duty it is to see that the amount has been properly entered in the pension book.
The pension began at the age of seventy, the amount varying by very complicated rules, but the state paid a fixed sum of two pounds ten shillings annually in addition to the pension.
He afterwards received a pension, but the Directory banished him from France, and as he refused to share in the plots of the royalists he lived at Barcelona till his death in 1814, when the house of Conti became extinct.
The town of Arcot, together with the whole of the territory of the Carnatic, passed into the hands of the British in 1801, upon the formal resignation of the government by the nawab, Azim-ud-daula, who received a liberal pension.
In the same year Disraeli offered him the Grand Cross of the Bath and a pension.
When France went over to the Yorkists, Kennedy, accepting an English pension, made a long truce between Scotland and England (October 1464).
The execution of Mary on the 8th of February left James " a free king" as far as his mother's claim to the throne was concerned, and he had his pension of £3000 or £4000 from Elizabeth.
A year after his marriage he had been stricken down by severe illness, from the effects of which he was never completely to recover; financial cares followed, which were relieved unexpectedly by the generosity of the hereditary prince of Holstein-Augustenburg and his minister, Graf Schimmelmann, who conferred upon him a pension of moo talers a year for three years.
For some time he edited the Hyp Doctor, a weekly paper established in opposition to the Craftsman, and for this service he enjoyed a pension of 100 a year from Sir Robert Walpole.
His sight failed during the last ten years of his life, and there is no reason to doubt Matthew Parker's story that Wolsey suggested his retirement from his bishopric on a pension.
Charles's ally, Edward IV., invaded France in June 1475, but Louis bought him off on the 29th of August at Picquigny - where the two sovereigns met on a bridge over the Somme, with a strong grille between them, Edward receiving 75,000 crowns, and a promise of a pension of 50,000 crowns annually.
The peshwa himself surrendered, and was permitted to reside at Bithur, near Cawnpore, on a pension of £80,000 a year.
In the north of India, Baji Rao, the ex-peshwa who had been dethroned in 1818, lived on till 1853 in the enjoyment of his annual pension of £80,000.
After a mission to England, by way of protest and appeal, he settled down in the pleasant suburb of Garden Reach near Calcutta, where he lived in the enjoyment of a pension of £1 20,000 a year.
In 1766 he received a severe wound in an encounter with some Sannyasis, or religious fanatics, from which he never thoroughly recovered; and in 1777 he retired as major on a pension of £600 a year.
In 1784 the failure of some commercial speculations greatly reduced his means, and about the same time he was dismissed with a small pension from his situation.
It is said that the pension promised him was not paid till the next reign.
In 1806 he received in lieu of a pension the nominal office of the writership of the Edinburgh Gazette, with a salary of £300.
The great Swedish minister, Oxenstjerna, obtained for him a pension, and a commission to furnish a plan for regulating the Swedish schools according to his own method.
The sultan, reserving to himself all the powers and revenues of the Caliphate, allowed the caliph merely a secretary and a pension of 5000 dirhems a day.
All schools are generously supported, salaries are unusually good, and pension funds in all cities are authorized by state laws.
He was, however, in his turn driven out of Afghanistan in 1809 by Mahmud Shah, and found refuge and a pension in British territory.
Under the date of 14th July 1527, we find a "grant to Maister Hector" of an annual pension of £50, to be paid by the sheriff of Aberdeen out of the king's casualties; and on the 26th of July 1529 was issued a "precept for a lettre to Mr Hector Boys, professor of theology, of a pension of £50 Scots yearly, until the king promote him to a benefice of loo marks Scots of yearly value; the said pension to be paid him by the custumars of Aberdeen."
In 1533 and 1534, one-half of his pension was, however, paid by the king's treasurer, and the other half by the comptroller; and as no payment subsequent to that of Whitsuntide 1534 has been traced in the treasurer's accounts, he is supposed to have obtained the benefice soon after that period.
For these services he was created duke of Gaeta by the king, and was assigned a pension of 10,000 lire by parliament.
In spite of the valour of the Sikhs, they were utterly routed at Gujarat, and in March 1849 Dhuleep Singh was deposed, a pension of £40,000 a year being granted to him and his dependants.
He stayed for some time in Russia, hoping that his claim against England would be taken up by the Russians; but when that expectation proved futile he proceeded to Paris, where he lived for the rest of his life on the pension allowed him by the Indian government.
The Marlboroughs had been active in the affair and had benefited by it, the countess (as she then was) receiving a pension of £1000, and their conduct was noticed at court.
As a physician he seems to have done little, and lived poorly on a pension given him by some Dutch merchants and money which he earned from distillers for advocating the use of spirits.
In his last years he received from the German government a pension of 1000 marks.
Miss Edwards received, shortly before her death, a civil list pension from the British government.
A few squares north-west of it are the General Land Office, the headquarters of the Department of the Interior (commonly called the Patent Office), with Doric portico; the Pension Office, in which the Inauguration Ball is held on the evening of each president's taking office; the Government Printing Office (twelve storeys - one of the few tall office-buildings in the city); the City Hall, or District Court House; and the District Building (1908), another building of the local government.
The matter was finally settled by Oates receiving a royal pardon, with a pension of boo a year.
He was shortly afterwards formally installed as learned counsel, receiving the salary of X40, and at the same time a pension of £60 yearly.
On his return to France after a year and a half, he was received into the house of Fouquet, superintendent of finance, who gave him a pension of 150o livres.
Herbelot, however, was recalled to France by Colbert, and received from the king a pension equal to the one he had lost.
The council-general of the department had granted him a sum of 600 francs, and the town council promised an annual pension of 400, but in spite of friendly help and introductions Millet went through great difficulties.
Anxious to retain so promising an adherent, and probably desirous at the same time to avoid public scandal, the chiefs of the community offered him a yearly pension of r000 florins if he would outwardly conform and appear now and then in the synagogue.
John De Witt had been Spinoza's friend, and had bestowed a small pension upon him; he had Spinoza's full sympathy in his political aims. On receiving the news of the brutal murder of the two brothers, Spinoza burst into tears, and his indignation was so roused that he was bent upon publicly denouncing the crime upon the spot where it had been committed.
From him Spinoza received a communication enclosing a passport from the French commander, who wished to make his acquaintance and promised him a pension from the French king at the easy price of a dedication to his majesty.
Spinoza went to Utrecht, but returned without seeing Conde, who had in the meantime been called elsewhere; the pension he civilly declined.
In March 1801 he was the naval commander of the combined force which reduced the islands of St Bartholomew and St Martin, a service for which he was rewarded with the order of the Bath and a pension of £l000 a year.
The king gave him a pension and rooms in the palace, admitting him on intimate terms. He was not equal to Kellgren in general poetical ability, but he is great in didactic and satiric writing.
In February 1839 he resigned, receiving consolation in the shape of a pension of 2000 a year.
Once reconverted, she was neglected and sent home to live with her mother, who had only a small pension of 200 livres a year, which ceased on her death in 1650.
On the death of Scarron, in 1660, Anne of Austria continued his pension to his widow, and even increased it to 2000 livres a year, which enabled her to entertain and frequent the literary society her husband had made her acquainted with; but on the queen-mother's death in 1666 the king refused to continue her pension, and she prepared to leave Paris for Lisbon as lady attendant to the queen of Portugal.
But before she started she met Mme de Montespan, who was already, though not avowedly, the king's mistress, and who took such a fancy to her that she obtained the continuance of her pension, which put off for ever the question of going to Portugal.
However, the regent Orleans in no way molested her, but, on the contrary, visited her at St Cyr and continued her pension of 48,000 livres.
Markham, however, states that both Ali Mirza and Hasan Ali were allowed to retire with a small pension, and that no atrocities stained the beginning of the reign of Mahommed Shah.
A handsome sum was raised for Bell by subscription among the citizens of Glasgow; and he also received from the trustees of the river Clyde a pension of X100 a year.
Abroad the great national interests were eagerly sacrificed for the sake of a pension, and at home his personal ease and pleasure alone decided every measure, and the fate of every minister and subject.
His plan was to render himself independent of parliament and of the nation by binding himself to France and the French policy of aggrandizement, and receiving a French pension with the secret intention as well of introducing the Roman Catholic religion again into England.
The first, signed only, among the ministers, by Arlington and Clifford, the rest not being initiated, on the 10th of May 1670, provided for the return of England to Rome and the joint attack of France and England upon Holland, England's ally, together with Charles's support of the Bourbon claims to the throne of Spain, while Charles received a pension of £ 200,000 a year.
In the second, signed by Arlington, Buckingham, Lauderdale and Ashley on the 31st of December 1670,nothing was said about the conversion,and the pension provided for that purpose was added to the military subsidy, neither of these treaties being communicated to parliament or to the nation.
On the 17th of February 1676, with Danby's knowledge, Charles concluded a further treaty with Louis by which he undertook to subordinate entirely his foreign policy to that of France, and received an annual pension of £100,000.
He carefully refrained from incurring suspicion and unpopularity by opposing the general outcry, and though he saw through the imposture from the beginning he made no attempt to moderate the popular frenzy or to save the life of any of the victims, his co-religionists, not even intervening in the case of Lord Stafford, and allowing Titus Oates to be lodged at Whitehall with a pension.
But the Crown frequently farmed out its monopolies to individual merchants, or granted trading-licences by way of pension or reward.
On the 16th of April 1359 the king gave Wykeham a pension of £ 20 a year from the exchequer until he could obtain peaceful possession of Pulham.
He resigned his see (1550) in favour of the Dominican Egidio Foscherari, reserving to himself an annual pension and the patronage of livings.
Accordingly he obtained a pension of £3000 a year for three lives, and his wife, Lady Hester Grenville, whom he had married in 1 754, was created Baroness Chatham in her own right.
Soon after the funeral a bill was passed bestowing a pension of 4000 a year on his successors in the earldom.
From this time onward the ex-bishop lived in retirement, occupying himself in literary pursuits and in correspondence with most of the eminent savants of Europe; but as he had been deprived of his pension as a senator he was compelled to sell his library to obtain means of support.
It provided that, on any bishop desiring to retire on account of age or incapacity, the sovereign should be empowered to declare the see void by an order in council, the retiring bishop of archbishop to be secured the use of the episcopal residence for life and a pension of one-third of the revenues of the see, or £2000, whichever sum should prove the larger.
At his death in 1774 an order of his successor banished her to the abbey of Pont-aux-Dames, near Meaux, but, the queen interceding for her, the king in the following year gave her permission to reside at Luciennes with a pension.
But the appointment provoked such a storm of popular ill will in the canton that the authorities considered it wise to pension him before he entered upon his duties, although this concession came too late to save the government.
A pension of £120,000 per annum was allowed to the king, with exclusive jurisdiction over the palace, and the titular sovereignty as before; but the city, together with the Delhi territory, passed under British administration.
From 1816 to 1819 Harrison was a representative in Congress, and as such worked in behalf of more liberal pension laws and a better militia organization, including a system of general military education, of improvements in the navigation of the Ohio, and of relief for purchasers of public lands, and for the strict construction of the power of Congress over the Territories, particularly in regard to slavery.
The chief, who is a Mahratta of the Bhonsla family, resides at Poona on a pension, while the state is under British management.
Louis seized Anjou and Bar, and two years later sought to compel the king of Sicily to exchange the two duchies for a pension.
Margaret lived for six years at different places in Bar and Anjou, in poverty and dependent for a pension on Louis, who made her surrender in return her claims to her father's inheritance.
A pension was awarded him by Mr Gladstone at the beginning of 1881.
He lived for some time at Aldgate, London, in the house of his former pupil, Thomas Howard, now duke of Norfolk, who retained a sincere regard for his tutor and left him a small pension in his will.
After campaigning in Bohemia and Hungary, suffering imprisonment, and travelling in England, Scotland and France, he finally settled in Holland, where (after 1616) he received a regular pension from Leiden Academy.
As the government of the Netherlands, up to 1724 held by Eugene, had now for some reason been bestowed on a sister of the emperor, the prince was appointed vicar-general of Italy, with a pension of 300,000 florins.
Anne offered him a pension of 3000 a year, but this he refused, saying "if he could not have the honour to serve his country he would not plunder it."
Senac went in 1792 to Russia, where he hoped to become imperial historiographer, but his manners displeased Catherine, who contented herself with dismissing him with a pension.
The remaining two and a half years of Leonardo's life were spent at the Castle of Cloux near Amboise, which was assigned, with a handsome pension, to his use.
None could be procured; the public passion swept everything before it; the patent was cancelled; Wood was compensated by a pension; Swift was raised to a height of popularity which he retained for the rest of his life; and the only real sufferers were the Irish people, who lost a convenience so badly needed that they might well have afforded to connive at Wood's illicit profits.
This officer came to Ireland in 1690 and raised an army in Ulster for the service of James II., afterwards deserting to the side of William III., from whom he accepted a pension.
He was again dismissed without a pension, on the 10th of December 1770, for refusing to have anything to do with Struensee.
On the transfer of the Neapolitan crown to Charles of Bourbon, Giannone lost his Austrian pension and was compelled to remove to Venice.
The Restoration government at first suspected him as a Bonapartist, but at length granted him a pension.
Cities have been allowed (1892), upon authorization by the General Assembly, to organize pension systems for disabled firemen, but not allowed (1904) to organize the same for police forces.
For nine years (1674-1681), and again in 1683, his pension had, for what reason is unknown, been suspended.
It used to be said that he was in great straits, and the story went (though, as far as Boileau is concerned, it has been invalidated), that at last Boileau, hearing of this, went to the king and offered to resign his own pension if there were not money enough for Corneille, and that Louis sent the aged poet two hundred pistoles.
At the same time he continued his philosophical contributions to the Academy of St Petersburg, which granted him a pension in 1742.
Young Boudin found his desire to be a painter stimulated by their influence; his work made a certain progress, and the interest taken in the young man resulted in his being granted for a short term of years by the town of his adoption a pension, that he might study painting.
He was obliged to accept a laborious post, working nine hours a day for £40 a year, to live on the generosity of a former valet, and finally to solicit a small pension from his family.
A crown pension of 250 a year was conferred upon him in 1752.
Henry very wisely proceeded to get out of the war on the best terms possible, and, to the disgust of Maximilian, sold peace to the French king for 600,000 crowns, as well as an additional sum representing arrears of the pension which Louis XI.
Henry rewarded him with a pension of 20 a year, and encouraged him to further exploration, in which he discovered all the American coast-line from Labrador to the mouth of the Delawarea great heritage for England, but one not destined to be taken up for colonization till more than a century had passed.
The practice of bribing members of parliament by actual presents in money came to an end, though the practice of bribing them by place and pension long continued.
When Hamilton retired from his post, Burke accompanied him back to London, with a pension of £300 a year on the Irish Establishment.
When Hamilton continued to press his odious pretensions they quarrelled (1765), and Burke threw up his pension.
A pension of £2500 was all that Burke could now be persuaded to accept.
She was, however, restored to favour, granted a pension of 1 600 a year by James, and given io,000 crowns to pay her debts.
Sir James made over this gift to the four esquires who had attended him during the battle, and received from the prince a further pension of six hundred marks.
In 1835 she received a pension of boo from government.
On the 29th of November the Assembly decreed that every nonjuring clergyman must take within eight days the civic oath, substantially the same as the oath previously administered, on pain of losing his pension and, if any troubles broke out, of being deported.
Uncertainty as to his future led him to accept an invitation from the king of France to Paris, where he was naturalized and was appointed director of optics for the marine, an office instituted for him, with a pension of 8000 livres.
He received a commission for good conduct in action, and served in the later German campaigns of the Seven Years' War with distinction; but at the peace he was retired as a captain, with a small pension and the cross of St Louis.
In 1838 he obtained the pension Suard, a bursary of 150o francs a year for three years, for the encouragement of young men of promise, which was in the gift of the academy of Besancon.
His famous answer to this question, "La propriete, c'est le vol".(property is theft), naturally did not please the academy of Besancon, and there was some talk of withdrawing his pension; but he held it for the regular period.
His eldest brother John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln (c. 1464-1487), is said to have been named heir to the throne by his uncle Richard III., who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort.
In post-Augustan Latin the word was applied to any allowance, pension or stipend.
In 1861 he was awarded a civil list pension of 70 a year, and in the next year published Tiw, the most striking of his philological studies, in which the Teutonic roots in the English language are discussed.
About this time Richelieu offered him a pension.
MacMurrough Kavanagh, in Irish eyes the representative of King Dermod, received an annual pension from the exchequer.
During his last days he lived as a private gentleman on a small pension given him by Henry IV., and he died in Paris on the 26th of August 1595.
There, refusing the pension which had been offered him and all ecclesiastical preferment, he lived frugally, and spent his days and nights as at Brussels in literary labour.
After the revolution of July 1830 he reappeared in France, was reduced by a series of lawsuits to extreme indigence, accepted a small pension assigned him by Louis Philippe (on whom he had heaped abuse and railing), and died, the last survivor of the Committee of Public Safety, on the 13th of January 1841.
The pope admitted him to six long audiences in the course of two months, wrote an enthusiastic letter to the grand-duke praising the great astronomer, not only for his distinguished learning, but also for his exemplary piety, and granted a pension to his son Vincenzio, which was afterwards transferred to himself, and paid, with some irregularities, to the end of his life.
Their commandaries were used to pay, or pension, the servants of the sovereigns.
In 1736 he published a French translation of Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, and dedicated it to Queen Caroline, from whom he received a pension of £200 a year.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, in which he took an active part, he was imprisoned at Besancon, and lost his pension, being reduced to such extremities that he was obliged to sell a portion of his library.
In 1802 his pension was restored to him, but too late to prevent the sale of the remainder of his books.
This pension, however, was only intended to be a life grant to Baji Rao himself.
The sympathies of Reuss were German rather than French, and after the annexation of Alsace to Germany he remained at Strassburg, and retained his professorship till, in 1888, he retired on a pension.
Soon after Menasseh left London Cromwell granted him a pension, but he died before he could enjoy it.
After the fall of the Borgia he returned, but, being bitterly detested by his people, decided to sell his rights to the Venetians, who had long desired to possess Rimini, and who gave him in exchange the town of Cittadella, some ready money, and a pension for life.
An alternative route would be to have a company pension scheme owning the property.
The pensions dilemma is closing down a "final salary" pension scheme.
Are employers obliged to offer a pension scheme to their employees?
Statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pension in new employment 42.
From 2007, new entrants will have a better pension accrual rate to help offset their normal pension age of 65.
The process of buying " added years ", including the relevance of previously accrued pension rights 6.2.
Mr Farr, Watson Wyatt, is an experienced senior actuary for some of the largest pension schemes in the UK.
Soon some east European country will set the pension age at 70 to try to compete with its more powerful neighbors.
Members who expect to accrue enough pension to take them above the lifetime allowance in the future might also need to register certain rights.
He confirms that this cut applied to with profit annuitants as well as to pension and endowment investors.
This annuity taxation can be compared to a compulsory purchase annuity taxation can be compared to a compulsory purchase annuity for a pension where all the income is taxed as earned income.
A pension annuity is used to convert capital within a pension plan into a regular guaranteed lifetime income.
You'll receive a competitive salary; performance-related bonuses, profit sharing and employer funded pension.
But after the war, he retired on a small pension and became a school bursar.
Firefighters have targeted two post offices in Congleton (on pension day) recently canvassing for the free Home Fire Safety Checks.
These repayment vehicles could be the forecast tax-free cash from a pension, or an ISA or some other regular savings or investment scheme.
Paragraph 23 amends the overall ceiling on an individual's total pension commencement lump sums of 25% of the standard lifetime allowance.
Shortly before you retired you received a revised pension figure including commutation which was substantially lower.
The A-Day pension rules from April this year removed the compulsion to buy an annuity at 75.
We believe that if increased compulsion is necessary, the fairest way to achieve it would be through the state pension system.
This group has a brief to design a practical model of pension compulsion for the UK rather than discuss its merits.
This is the growing consensus about how to tackle Britain's pension crisis.
You may be able to pay further contributions to your pension, which can soak up some unused tax relief.
During 2003, CIS staff benefits included a contributory, defined benefit (' final salary ') pension scheme.
For people on low earnings who can ill afford to make the wrong decision this is the trickiest pension conundrum of all.
Today's pension crisis is the equivalent of the perfect storm.
Almost everyday we see pension debacles in the press whether government or company pension schemes.
Internal transfer A pension sharing order will create a pension debit against the scheme member in favor of the spouses pension rights.
Royal Mail has a pension fund deficit of approximately £ 4.25 billion.
In common with many large organizations, Royal Mail has seen its pension fund hit by the downturn in the stock market.
Instead, an option, called income drawdown, lets you take an income directly from your personal pension plan.
Will the NHS pension Scheme be introducing a pension drawdown facility?
Resolved, that The Authority approves the establishment of a Police Pension Board.
However it was agreed that the press log relating to a police pension forfeiture case would be attached to the report in future.
The results will be revealed at a pension fund trustee conference at the London Stock Exchange in June.
Continuing to save for pension after age 60 would increase these pension amounts at age 65 and 70 even further.
Instead they could be retiring with a lower income from their funded pension than previous generations.
He received no golden handshake or pension after being dismissed by the electorate.
The Scheme will normally pay a death gratuity of three times your annual pension at the date of death.
The death gratuity payable is based on three times the value of your annual pension at the date of death.
She did not know that he had only a halfpenny in his pockets out of the pension money.
The Bill denies same-sex partners the same pension rights as married heterosexuals.
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In special circumstances, such as sickness or disability, a pension may be paid early if the employe is permanently incapacitated.
For example, you cannot get incapacity Benefit once you are five years over state pension age.
New Labor has shown no inclination to grant the kind of tax exemption pension funds demand.
Imagine putting a whole year's gross income into your pension!
So instead of automatically buying a retirement income from your pension provider, you should take time to consider your options.
The dependents pension income will be paid if death occurs after retirement and the pension will be increased by limited price indexation.
I gave up the best pension scheme ever invented to brew beer.
The Truth behind Pension Mortgages A pension mortgage may seem lucrative at the first sight.
As employers make up for falling market prices in increased contributions toward their pension schemes, that by extension means less IR takings.
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This is done by applying a standard multiplier to the increased value of the eventual pension benefit.
It is the keystone of the tax neutrality required by the pension funds.
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The provision in the Rules for pension sharing on divorce is also extended to former civil partners.
Until recently many employers excluded part-timers from occupational pension schemes or offered inferior schemes for part-timers from occupational pension schemes or offered inferior schemes for part-timers.
It will mean that many part-timers ' pension claims will now fail.
Justification may include the fact that few part-timers actually wanted to join a pension scheme.
The Labor Government proposed public sector pension reform last autumn and then backtracked in the face of opposition from their public sector union paymasters.
If you marry after leaving the LGPS your spouse's long-term pension will normally be less than the amount shown on your statement.
At present, he has an occupational pension with his employer, which contributes 15 per cent of basic salary.
A basic state pension of at least £ 105 a week which is paid to people at 65.
If you don't want to transfer your benefits, you can leave them in USS (this is called a deferred pension ).
For most countries the main benefit for pensioners is the contributory social security pension.
It may be that now is the time to be moving your policies into a SIPP (self-invested personal pension ).
You can contribute to a ' stakeholder pension ' provided you earn less than £ 30,000 a year.
We are in the process of negotiating changes to a number of final salary pension schemes in order to keep them open.
There are no provisions in the regulations to review an ill-health pension in payment in the light of later medical evidence.
In 1997/98, 67% of recently retired pensioners had an income from an occupational pension.
A review of your pension provision may show that this is not the case.
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Over the period up to 2020, rises in the pension age population are largely offset by a reduction in the numbers of children.
We look forward to the further progress of the pension reforms.
Administration The complex approval process for pension schemes will be replaced by a simplified regime requiring registration only.
A person's pensionable remuneration is used to calculate their local government pension.
Only 16% of recently retired women are entitled to a full basic state pension in their own right.
The other is the loss in pension wealth by those who postpone retirement and thus receive less for any given life expectancy.
Any pension contributions paid by the company to an approved pension scheme for your benefit (but not for anyone else ).
The Bank also operates a small unfunded pension scheme.
The scheme is an important and valuable staff benefit for... to their employer's occupational pension scheme.
Ministers are looking at handing over a key element of the biggest pension shake-up in a generation to the private sector.
Many employees already hold shares through their pension funds.
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When this is converted into state pension expenditure as% of GDP the looming problem of unfunded pensions looks stark indeed.
You can also access a wide range of pooled pension funds via a ' fund supermarket ' .
For higher-rate taxpayers paying 40 per cent, every £ 100 going into their pension costs them £ 60.
Example Suppose a top-rate taxpayer wants to put £ 10,000 cash into his pension scheme.
To find out more, I'm off to get my pension, Talking in the queue will help relieve the tension.
It is a con trick to use pension saver's funds to take risks Big Business itself refuses to take.
All they have won in exchange is a temporary truce in the assault on existing members ' pension rights.
The survey is sent to the TUC's network of member nominated pension fund trustees.
Pension trustee liability indemnity to trustee liability indemnity to Trustees against negligent act, error or omission.
The pension scheme trustees will need to record the change of employer.
The threatened walkouts follow Grampian's decision to end final salary pension schemes for workers at a number of its plants.
In Britain we have seen the collapse of our funded pensions, and our social security pension is being overtaken by means-tested welfare.
The widow's, widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.
The widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.
The state pension wold then rise every year in line with earnings.
Moreover, a pension fund is the most tax-efficient wrapper for personal property investment.
But when Dorset was replaced by the duke of Devonshire in 1755, Boyle was raised to the peerage as earl of Shannon and received a pension, and other members of the opposition also obtained pensions or places; and the archbishop, finding himself excluded from power, went into opposition to the government in alliance with John Ponsonby.
Popular enthusiasm induced the Conservative Minghetti cabinet to propose that a sum of 40,000 with an annual pension of 2000 be conferred upon him as a recompense for his services, but the proposal, though adopted by parliament (27th May 1875), was indignantly refused by Garibaldi.
Prolonged illness brought on straitened circumstances; and application was Iriade to Sir Robert Peel to place Hood's name on the pension list with which the British state so moderately rewards the national services of literary men.
A royal order summoned him to France for new honours - an additional pension and a permanent post - for his fame had by this time gone abroad, and it was the age when princes sought to attract genius and learning to their courts.
This "traditional biography" prolongs his life to the year 1461, but it is quite improbable that he lived many years after 1446, when Abbot Curteys died and John Baret, treasurer of Bury, signed an extant receipt for a pension which he shared with Lydgate, and which continued to be paid till 1449.
On the fall of Florida Blanca, Moratin found another patron in Godoy, who provided him with a pension and the means for foreign travel; he accordingly visited England, where he began a prose translation of Hamlet, printed in 1798 but never performed.
On the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Holland, and received a pension from William of Orange, who commissioned him to write an account of the persecuted Huguenots (Plaintes des Protestants cruellement opprimes dans le royaume de France, 1686).
His successor, Alexander VI., used him for a more questionable purpose, namely, not only to extract the arrears of the pension due for Jem's safe-keeping, but, by enlarging on Charles V.'s intention of setting him up as sultan, to persuade Bayezid to aid him against the emperor.
Charpentier, who was long in receipt of a pension of 1200 livres from Colbert, was erudite and ingenious, but he was always heavy and commonplace.
The state of utter indigence to which Tennyson was reduced greatly exercised his friends, and in September 1845, at the suggestion of Henry Hallam, Sir Robert Peel was induced to bestow on the poet a pension of f200 a year.
Some little relief he got through the intervention of Etienne d'Aligre, the chancellor, who procured a royal mandate which enabled Grotius to draw, not all, but a large part of his pension.
When Burghley brought against her the unanswerable charge of having at that moment in her service, and in receipt of an annual pension, the instigator of a previous attempt on the life of Elizabeth, she had the unwary audacity to cite in her justification the pensions allowed by Elizabeth to her adversaries in Scotland, and especially to her son.
The granting away by William of the private estate of James, amounting to £2 a year, to which Anne had some claim, was made a grievance, and a factious motion brought forward in the House to increase her civil list pension of £30,000, which she enjoyed in addition to £ under her marriage settlement, greatly displeased William and Mary, who regarded it as a plot to make Anne independent and the chief of a separate interest in the state, while their resentment was increased by the refusal of Anne to restrain the action of her friends, and by its success.
She obtained a grant of 700,000 a year, and hastened to bestow a pension of X100,000 on her husband, whom she created generalissimo of her forces and lord high admiral, while Marlborough obtained the Garter, with the captain-generalship and other prizes, including a dukedom, and the duchess was made mistress of the robes with the control of the privy purse.
In April 1656 Charles went to Bruges, and on the 7th of February 1658 to Brussels, where he signed a treaty with Don John of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, by which he received an allowance in place of his French pension and undertook to assemble all his subjects in France in aid of the Spanish against the French.
He now wandered from country to country, occupied in ceaseless intrigues with Louis XVIII., or for setting up an Orleanist monarchy, until in 1804 he settled in England, where the government conferred on him a pension of £1200 a year.
That still rankles with pensioners because it meant that the basic state pension did not rise in line with the growth of the economy.
In many cases, by consolidating and regrouping different pension plans, you can gain considerably more.
To find out more, I 'm off to get my pension, Talking in the queue will help relieve the tension.
A person 's pensionable remuneration is used to calculate their local government pension.
He retired on a pension of £ 250 pa pre-arranged in 1905.
A pension for those who retire early due to ill health.
In real terms, the basic State retirement pension has been frozen for 24 years.
Pension All pilots will be entitled to a 7% of basic salary pension contribution from the company paid into the existing easyJet scheme.
The prospect of being able to tax shelter their buy to let investments in pension arrangements has buy to let investors positively salivating !
Some people in same-sex relationships may also get better pension rights.
Any pension contributions paid by the company to an approved pension scheme for your benefit (but not for anyone else).
The Scheme is an important and valuable staff benefit for... to their employer 's occupational pension scheme.
Whether companies will be prepared to accept higher pension costs will depend on how far the economy slips into recession.
An actuary can advise on the solvency of a life assurance company and a pension fund.
The decision to take the lump sum would not affect the payment of any spouse 's pension or child 's pension.
It also holds the register of all stakeholder pension schemes.
You can also access a wide range of pooled pension funds via a ' fund supermarket '.
So why not just raise the basic pension to a survivable level for all, and raise extra tax to pay for it?
The Society enjoys a special tax status, providing tax-exempt savings and pension plans.
Money placed in a properly structured pension plan is tax deductible and the funds grow tax-free for retirement.
In fact I am thankful to have my state pension to fall back on.
It is a con trick to use pension saver 's funds to take risks Big Business itself refuses to take.
In the United States trillions of dollars have to be put back into pension funds, which means profits are effectively negative.
The survey is sent to the TUC 's network of member nominated pension fund trustees.
Will I really be unaffected by the change to normal pension age?
Offering a £ 20k basic with uncapped OTE, company car, mobile and pension.
People did not stay on with unquestioning loyalty in the hopes of getting a good pension.
The threatened walkouts follow Grampian 's decision to end final salary pension schemes for workers at a number of its plants.
If they waltz off with a bit of your pension, you ca n't say you have n't been warned.
The ongoing income of a contribution based benefit such as widows pension is thus an important safeguard.
The widow 's, widower 's or civil partner 's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.
The benefits eg a widow 's pension are often worth preserving.
All service is covered for family benefits, therefore the widower 's pension is equal to half the member 's own pension.
Qualifying plans usually include pension plans, 401(k) plans, and 403(b) plans.
For example, if you've been a stay-at-home mom for the majority of your marriage, you may want alimony or a portion of your husband's pension plan.
Since many AARP members haven't actually retired yet, there are frequent articles on retirement planning and pension concerns.
Employers can contribute more to a pension or defined benefit plan than to other types of plans, and because benefits are not dependent on asset returns, defined benefit plans provide substantial benefits even when retiring early.
This is not the same thing as receiving a pension, since the retired serviceman or woman can be recalled back to active duty at any time.
But thanks to the Pension Protection Act (PPA) of 2006, you can get a "senior discount".
Get ready for the jokes asking if you are still awake if someone calls you after 8 p.m. There are also certain topics that seem to be the center of conversation when a person ages past 50 such as the weather and pension plans.
Until 2007, there was a cap on the percentage used to calculate military retirees' pension payments.
A Retiree Medical Trust is a type of trust fund that is set up while a person is working, and is similar to a fund that is set up for lifetime pension benefits.
Texas has Confederate pension applications and Republic of Texas records in searchable form.
Look for census records, tax records and pension applications to name a few.
Land offices, pension boards, bureaus of vital statistics and licensing boards may have information for a genealogist.
Try searching on "Louisiana pension applications" or "California land records" and browse through the results.
If you are looking, for example, for Civil War pension applications, search for "Civil War pension applications" and a specific state such as "Georgia."
Peruse the federal census from 1790 to 1930, family and local histories, pension files and PERSI, which is an index to articles in genealogical journals.
Confederate pension applications were granted by the individual Southern states.
Military service records, such as enlistment records, draft registration and pension applications will often have the date of birth of the service member.
A draft registration or pension application with an individual's birth date on it is considered a very strong proof.
It contains the federal census from 1790 to 1930, local histories, pension records and PERSI, an index to genealogical articles.
It depends on which military conflict and any additional applications the service person made, such as pension applications.
One of the best sources for military information on an ancestor is a pension application.
Civil War pension applications are slightly more complicated.
Union pension applications are kept by NARA and are searchable on its website.
Confederate pensions were granted by the Southern state where the veteran lived when he applied for the pension.
State archives will usually have a listing of Confederate pension applications.
The National Archives holds the records of pension claim files for those with Federal service covering the years 1775-1916.
For Civil War pensions, NARA has pension applications for Union veterans only.
Confederate pension applications are maintained by the state where the veteran applied for a pension.
Applications for a bounty land warrant contain similar information as a pension, such as military service information, marriage licenses, and death information.
Additionally, you may be able to find military discharge documents as part of pension files.
Discharge papers were often used as proof of service for receipt of a pension.
You can request pension records from the National Archives.
As the company generates more profits, it will have more resources to invest in better wages for employees, improved benefits packages and pension plans.
FedEx is a company that offers a wide variety of benefits to its employees, including medical plans, life insurance, disability insurance and pension plans.
The benefits available to Sears employees- from salary to health insurance and pension plans- differ depending on the level of employment.
Some airlines are even cutting into employee pension funds and eliminating skilled employees.
Instead of doing this, check with your agent and ask how to elect a life insurance option to maximize your pension.
A GUL policy is also good for a situation where a spouse chooses the "Life No Refund" option at retirement as their pension option.
This law applies in situations where the employer does not provide a pension any longer and the pension benefit is paid by the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation.
If you've never had a pension benefit where you work or you recently lost your access to a pension plan, a clear outline of annuities for dummies may be exactly what you need to replace that lost retirement savings vehicle.
As employer pension programs gradually transition into 401k plans, employees are stuck wondering what to do in order to guarantee a monthly paycheck after retirement.
In the case of a pension plan, you may invest from zero to three percent of your income to a company plan that guarantees a certain monthly income upon retirement.
Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the poem so much that she awarded Edmund Spenser with a 50 pound a year pension for life.
The management of finance was scarcely satisfactory, for though Giolitti, who had succeeded Magliani and Perazzi at the treasury, suppressed the formers illusory pension fund, he lacked the fibre necessary to deal with the enormous deficit of nearly 10,000,000 in 1888-1889, the existence of which both i Perazzi and he had recognized.
Indian affairs, the committee on foreign relations and others, was prominent in the discussion of matters brought before the Senate from these committees, advocated the enlargement of the navy and the reform of the civil service, and opposed the pension veto messages of President Cleveland.
Being destined for the army, he was entered at a pension militaire at Paris.
He was held as a prisoner from 1776 until exchanged in 1778; and lived four years in New York, and during the remainder of his life in England with an annual pension of £800 from the crown.
He was only restored to favour about 1584, and in 1593 he received a small pension from the queen.
But the panic had now worn itself out, and the importance of Oates rapidly declined; so much so that after the dissolution in 1682 he was no more heard of during Charles's reign, but enjoyed his pension of £600 or £900, it is uncertain which, in quiet.
Large pension charities are administered by the governing body, and part of the income of the hospital (about L60,000 annually) is devoted to apprenticing boys and girls, to leaving exhibitions from the school, &c.
The Commonwealth legislation thus made provision for the aged poor in the three states which up to 1908 had not accepted the principle of old age pensions, and also for those who, owing to their having resided in more than one state, were debarred from receiving pension in any.
At a later period he was released from close confinement and allowed to settle in Mexico, where a pension was given him.
The circumstances of his appointment and the erroneous belief that he was receiving a pension of f 4 000 per annum for his few days' court work brought Campbell much unmerited obloquy.'
Being routed, Jem fled for refuge to the knights of St John at Rhodes, who, in spite of a safe-conduct granted to him, accepted a pension from Bayezid as the price for keeping him a close prisoner.
Upon the advent of the Left to power, however, he accepted both gift and pension, and worked energetically upon the scheme for the Tiber embankment to prevent the flooding of Rome.
By the Federal Act, passed in the session of 1908, a pension of ten shillings a week was granted to persons of either sex over sixty-five years of age, or to persons over sixty who are incapacitated from earning a living.
Stoke, however, was dissolved in the following reign, and Parker received a pension equivalent to £400 a year in modern currency.
At the Conference of 1842 both Clowes and Bourne became supernumeraries with a pension of f25 a year each.
His pension was continued by the National Assembly, and he was partially indemnified for the depreciation of the currency by remunerative appointments.
In March 1784 he entered into relations with a certain Jeanne de St Remy de Valois, a descendant of a bastard of Henry II., who after many adventures had married a soi-disant comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her.
In the year 1 747, to the great regret of his colleagues, he resigned his post of assessor of the board of mines that he might devote himself to his higher vocation, requesting only to be allowed to receive as a pension the half of his salary.
Dean began to wonder if he was laying his pension on the line by not reporting the entire case in an official manner.
In 1820 he retired with a pension his estate at Hornau, near Hochst, in Hesse-Darmstadt; but as a member of the first chamber of the states of the grand-duchy he continued to take an active share in the promotion of measures for the welfare of his country.
This was done without delay, and the pension was continued to his wife and family after his death, which occurred on the 3rd of May 1845.
The second brief visit, in 1647, partly on literary, partly on family business, was signalized by the award of a pension of 3000 francs, obtained from the royal bounty by Cardinal Mazarin.
This national policy, however, could only be pursued, and the minister could only maintain himself in power, by acquiescence in the king's personal relations with the king of France settled by the disgraceful Treaty of Dover in 1670, which included Charles's acceptance of a pension, and bound him to a policy exactly opposite to Danby's, one furthering French and Roman ascendancy.
In November of this year he obtained a renewal of his pension of J350o a year from the post office which he was holding in 1 The title was taken, not from Leeds in Yorkshire, but from Leeds in Kent, 41 m.
It should be mentioned that while Sunderland was thus serving James II., he was receiving a pension from France, and through his wife's lover, Henry Sidney, afterwards earl of Romney, he was furnishing William of Orange with particulars about affairs in England.
Charles, however, subsequently granted her a pension and treated her with kindness.
All that is known of him from this date to his death about 1520 is derived from the poems or from entries in the royal registers of payments of pension and grants of livery.
He was subsequently settled on a farm in the Transvaal and given a pension of £500 a year.
About this time, his father, a poor Protestant minister, died, and the family was left in straitened circumstances; but a small pension from the state allowed Abel to enter Christiania University in 1821.
Vermigli and Ochino were both invited to England by Cranmer in 1547, and given a pension of forty marks by the government.
As for Ferdinand, the emperor, on hearing the news of a rising in Madrid on the 2nd of May, overwhelmed him with threats, until he resigned the crown into the hands of his father, who had already bargained it away to Napoleon in return for a pension (5th of May 1808).
Labour questions were entrusted to a separate department, the Direction du Travail, and the pension and insurance office was also raised to the status of a "direction."
He was continually employed on diplomatic errands until 1455, when, owing apparently to ill-health, he received apartments in the palace of the counts of Hainaut at Salle-le-Comte, Valenciennes, with a con siderable pension, on condition that the recipient should put in writing "choses nouvelles et morales," and a chronicle of notable events.
A singular series of negotiations, however, secured from the king of Sweden a promise of the ambassadorship for twelve years and a pension in case of its withdrawal, and the marriage took place on the 14th of January 1786.
In 1758 Home became private secretary to Lord Bute, then secretary of state, and was appointed tutor to the prince of Wales; and in 1760 his patron's influence procured him a pension of 300 per annum and in 1763 a sinecure worth another f Soo.
From several European crowned heads he received, at various times, marks of special distinction, and the empress Maria Theresa granted him a yearly pension of Too sequins (50).
The Abbe Barthelemy procured for him a pension, with the appointment of interpreter of oriental languages at the Royal Library.
Having become embarrassed with debt, he found it necessary, at the age of seventy, to sell his office; but the king, amused with an epigram, gave him a pension, with the title of historiographer of France.
In December 1721 his father died, leaving him property (rather more than four thousand 'l y res a year), which was soon increased by a pension of half the amount from the regent.
He afterwards received the thanks of parliament and of the East India Company for his gallant bearing on that important day, and a pension was offered to him by the Company, which he declined, apparently from the hope, of receiving the order of the Bath from the government.
These clergymen are known as Chaplains, and are subject to the same conditions as other civil servants, being eligible for a retiring pension after 23 years of service.
On the dissolution of the Company Mill was offered a seat in the new council, but declined, and retired with a pension of 1500.
In this are included the expenses of the administration of both the central and provincial departments of the finance ministry, the mint, charitable allowances, expenses and presents in connexion with the holy cities (£T121,410), pension funds of state officials (£7628,038), administrative allowance made to the agricultural bank (ET225,380) and various other expenses.
Before returning to Berlin to make arrangements for transferring himself finally to Vienna, Gentz paid a visit to London, where he made the acquaintance of Pitt and Granville, who were so impressed with his talents that, in addition to large money presents, he was guaranteed an annual pension by the British government in recognition of the value of the services of his pen against Bonaparte.
His expectations of the cardinalate were disappointed by Pius V.'s death in 1572, and Sanders spent the next few years at Madrid trying to embroil Philip II., who gave him a pension of 300 ducats, in open war with Elizabeth.
Several times he went to France on public business; in 1475 at the treaty of Picquigny he received a pension from Louis XI.
He surrendered all his offices and all his preferments except the archbishopric of York, receiving in return a pension of 1000 marks (equal to six or seven thousand pounds a year in modern currency) from the bishopric of Winchester, and retired to his see, which he had never before visited.
Sebastian afterwards made a voyage to Rio de la Plata in the service of Spain, but he returned to England in 1548 and received a pension from Edward VI.
This was introduced in 1852, carries a yearly pension of ioo frs.
The money thus obtained was appropriated in part to naval defence and harbours, and in part to the provision of old age pensions under the Federal Old Age Pension Act of 1908.