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===Civil List pensions===
{{see also|Pensions in the United Kingdom#Civil List pensions}}
These are pensions traditionally granted by the Sovereign from the Civil List upon the recommendation of the [[First Lord of the Treasury]]. The [[Civil List Act 1837|''Civil List Act 1837'']] applied the condition that any new pensions should be "granted to such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence or who by their personal services to the Crown, or by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their sovereign and the gratitude of their country."<ref>Civil List Act 1837 (c.2)</ref> Famous recipients include [[William Wordsworth]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=The economy of literary form: English literature and the industrialization of publishing, 1800-1850|last=Erickson|first=Lee|date=1996|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=0801851459|location=Baltimore|pages=76|oclc=32394070}}</ref> [[William Barnes]],<ref>Chris Wrigley, 'Barnes, William (1801–1886)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1475 accessed 7 Sept 2017]</ref> [[Geraldine Jewsbury]],<ref>Joanne Wilkes, 'Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor (1812–1880)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14815 accessed 7 Sept 2017]</ref> [[Margaret Oliphant]],<ref>
Elisabeth Jay, 'Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson (1828–1897)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20712 accessed 7 Sept 2017]</ref> [[Christopher Logue]],<ref>Jeremy Noel-Tod, 'Logue, (John) Christopher (1926–2011)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2015 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/104487 accessed 7 Sept 2017]</ref> and [[Molly Parkin]].<ref name=Parkin>{{cite news|author=Richard Eden|title=Erotic painter Molly Parkin is shocked to receive rare honour from the Queen|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9277314/Erotic-painter-Molly-Parkin-is-shocked-to-receive-rare-honour-from-the-Queen.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=20 May 2012|access-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> ([[Lord Byron]] is often said to have received a civil list pension, but his mother was the actual recipient.<ref>Jerome J. McGann, 'Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788–1824)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, May 2015 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4279 accessed 7 Sep 2017]</ref>) As of 1911, a sum of £1,200 was allotted each year from the Civil List, in addition to the pensions already in force. From a Return issued in 1908, the total of Civil List pensions payable in that year amounted to £24,665. In the financial year 2012–13 the annual cost of Civil List pensions paid to 53 people was £126,293.<ref>{{cite web|title=Written Answers to Questions|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130617/text/130617w0001.htm|publisher=House of Commons Hansard|date=17 June 2013|access-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> New Civil List pensions continue to be awarded occasionally.<ref name=Parkin/>