HC Deb 30 July 1919 vol 118 cc2118-9W
Major HURST

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a clerk of a district probate registry (appointed before 1870) is entitled to rank for pension as a permanent Civil servant; and, if so, whether he will reconsider the refusal of the Treasury, on 2nd May, 1918, to grant the petition of R. d' A. Wright, of 79, Ducie Grove, Manchester, to be awarded a pension in respect of his service in the Manchester Probate Registry from 1857 to 1917?

Mr. BALDWIN

The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The Treasury have no legal power to award a pension to Mr. Wright.