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Title: Pension Fund for the Incurable: registers

Reference: NHNN/QS/3

Date: 1927 to 1990

Description: The registers record name of pensioner; marital status; age; date of election; pension (name, date, annual value, and allocation); total annual amount paid to pensioner; quarterly payments; and remarks. The pensions awarded go back to 1866.

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Parent: Chartered Society of Queen Square

Children: Pension Fund for the Incurable: register, Pension Fund for the Incurable: register

Storage Reference: 2 volumes

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Notes:

Date: 1927-1990 Level: Series Admin history: The Pension Fund was established soon after the foundation of the Hospital by Johanna Chandler with the help of her brother Edward Chandler to provide small pensions for persons incapacitated by incurable nervous diseases and in destitute circumstances. In alloting pensions preference was given to persons who had become impoverished as a result of nervous illnesses, but in some cases the donors of capital sums were allowed to nominate the first recipient. Though the fund was financially independent of the Hospital, the election of pensioners was entrusted to the Board of Management. [Gordon Holmes, ‘The National Hospital, Queen Square’, (Edinburgh and London, 1954)]

Keywords: Cat status: Catalogued Person key: Chandler; Johanna (1820-1875); philanthropist Chandler; Edward Henry; philanthropist

Keywords: Calm Archives

Compilations: NHNN archives

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