§ SIR W. FOSTER (Derby, Ilkeston)beg to ask the honourable Member for Thirsk, as representing the Charity Commissioners, whether the Commissioners leave received the accounts for the years 1897 and 1898 for Lord Rolles' Charity connected with the University Press, Oxford; whether this charity was given for the benefit of the Press, and especially that out of it money might be lent to needy editors to assist them in their labour during residence at Oxford; and whether any money has been lent or offered unknown to any such editors during the last 30 years?
MR. GRANT LAWSON (York, N.E., Thirsk)The Commissioners have not received these accounts. The Trusts of the charity are as stated. The Report of the Oxford and Cambridge Commissioners shows that in 1873 the income of this charity was applied to the benefit of the University Press, as the special purpose of relief—to needy editors to assist them during their residence at Oxford—had then for some time failed.
§ SIR W. FOSTERIs the charity applied to needy members of the University Press?