HC Deb 08 April 1881 vol 260 c1015
MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, If he will state who are the persons referred to, at page 49 of the Finance Accounts, as having "suffered by the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798," and for whose pension a sum is still charged on the Consolidated Fund?

LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH

The persons referred to are the last two survivors of those who suffered by the Rebellion of 1798, and who received compensation under the Act of the Irish Parliament, 40 Geo. III. c. 49. One of them is Mrs. Anne Collins, daughter of Captain Lister, of the Fifeshire Fencibles. She receives an annuity of £18 9s. 4d. The other is Mrs. Mary Quin, who receives an annuity of £13 17s. in trust for herself and her sisters, daughters of Sergeant Major Lane, who was killed.