MR. DICK-PEDDIEasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is the case that all pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, whether they be Wesleyans, Presbyterians, or other Nonconformists, Roman Catholics or Episcopalians, are, when they die in the hospital, buried according to the rights of the Church of England; and, whether, if it be the case, he will take steps to secure henceforth for pensioners the right of burial according to the forms of their own religious denominations, as is the case in the Army?
§ MR. CHILDERSSir, I believe that some misunderstanding on the subject of the Burial Service over Presbyterian pensioners at Chelsea Hospital has arisen between the Commissioners and the gentleman who is doing temporary duty for the Presbyterian chaplain on leave. On the return of the latter, I will look into the matter; and, no doubt, the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital will act on my advice. I have, as my hon. Friend probably knows, no official control over them.