Pension for Lady Curzon Wyllie.

HC Deb 27 July 1909 vol 8 c1023

Mr. HART-DAVIES

asked the Under-Secretary for India whether he was in a position to state as yet if a pension would be granted to Lady Wyllie?

The MASTER of ELIBANK

In recognition of the long and excellent services rendered to the State by the late Sir Curzon Wyllie, and in view of the circumstances in which he met his death, the Secretary of State has decided, with the unanimous approval of the Council of India, to grant to Lady Wyllie a special pension of £500 a year for life.

Dr. V. H. RUTHERFORD

Will the cost fall on the Government of India or on this country?

The MASTER of ELIBANK

The pension has been granted from Indian revenues, because Sir Curzon Wyllie was in Indian service or in service paid from the revenues of India during the whole of his official career and at the time of his death.