Timeline for "pensioner" vs "retired person" Aren't they overlapping? Really, who is who?
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| Apr 10, 2023 at 13:20 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Monarchs granted 'perpetual pensions', often to people who had done them favours, from the time of Charles II onwards. Some could be left to heirs; others were for the life of the recipient or the monarch. They were later incorporated in the Civil List, and I think the last may have been bought out around 1947. | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 16:16 | history | edited | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 15:59 | history | answered | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |