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The Royal Naval Benevolent Society

The Royal Naval Benevolent Society, instituted 1739, incorporated 1838, affording relief to officers of the royal navy (being subscribers), and to their widows and families, under circumstances of distress. The society has paid away in grants during the past year its total available income of £1,614.

President, Lord Colchester.—Sec., James I. Riccalton, Esq.


SOURCE: The Charities of London, by Samuel Low, Jun., London: Sampson Low, Son,
and Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill. 1861.