Catalogue description OVERMAN AND DE BOSSET PENSION CHARITY

In 1771 Alice Shaw Overman established almshouses for eight poor women in Montague Close, near St Saviour's Church, in Southwark. She endowed them, with an annual rent charge of £130 derived from property in Montague Close to maintain the almshouses and to provide the almswomen with a pension. The almshouses were sold in 1882 for £2,000. The Charity Commission approved a new scheme for the Charity on 6 October 1885 which provided for the granting of pensions to poor women. A further scheme dated 1 October 1990 renamed the Charity the Overman and De Bosset Relief-in-Need Charity and nominated the Family Welfare Association as trustee.