Pension 1849


Home Accounts of the East India Company

No. 5

An Account of New or Increased Salaries, Establishments or Pensions, payable in Great Britain, Granted or Created between 1st May 1849 and 1st May 1850

Pensions Amount per Annum
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, widow of Lieut. Joseph Moorhouse Thompson, of the Madras Establishment, whose death is believed to have been accelerated by the deleterious nature of the ingredients of the fulminating composition, to th influence of which he had been so constantly exposed in the discharge of the duty assigned to him in the Percussion Cap Manufactory; granted during widowhood £.37.3s.9d. per annum (in addition to Lord Clive's Fund Pension of £.22.16s.3d.), and an allowance of £.15 per annum to each of her three children 82 3 9

Notes

The Course of Instruction in Laboratory Work, and Directions for Making Percussion Caps ... Artillery Depot of Instruction, Saint Thomas' Mount, January 1847


Source: House of Commons Papers vol 41