Uncatalogued

CHATHAM Chest, Copy of the Decree of the Commissioners of Charitable Uses to the Institution of the Chatham Chest.

Related material: RMG references CHA/G/1/A, and CHA/L/7/B and CHA/L/7/C.

Administrative / biographical background
The Chatham Chest, established in 1590, was the world’s first funded occupational pension scheme, it paid pensions to Royal Navy seamen becoming disabled on active service.