Civil List

In 1825, Mrs Grant received a civil-list pension of £50 a-year, in consideration of her literary talents, which, with the profits of her works and the legacies of several deceased friends, rendered the latter period of her life sufficiently comfortable in respect of pecuniary means. ❋ Various (N/A)

He declined the offer of the Regent's chair in the University of Wilna, in Russian-Poland; but shortly after had conferred on him, by the premier, Charles Fox, a civil-list pension of two hundred pounds. ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1850 he was elected first president of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution; and in the following year a civil-list pension of £300 was, on the recommendation of the premier, Lord John Russell, conferred on him by the Queen. ❋ Various (N/A)

Italian tobacco monopoly, the royal civil-list comprised 11 per cent. of the expenses, while the police accounted for 12 per cent., agriculture and commerce 1½ per cent., public works 4 per cent. and education 5 per cent. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

An opinion full as general prevailed also at the same time, that nothing could be done for the regulation of the civil-list establishment. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The other fact is, that Thyri had, by inheritance or covenant, not depending on her marriage with old Burislav, considerable properties in Wendland, which she often reflected might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The civil-list of the king amounted to more than one-tenth of the whole revenue. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

Wendland; which, she often reflected, might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

John Russell has been eccentric among English politicians, a civil-list pension of two hundred a year was granted to Leigh Hunt; but though this modified our plan so far as to strike out of it performances meant to be given in London, so much was still thought necessary as might clear off past liabilities, and enable one of the most genuine of writers better to enjoy the easier future that had at last been opened to him. ❋ John Forster (1844)