Below you’ll find links to the research U3A members conducted into the lives of 96 pensioners from South-West England, Scotland and Ireland, all of whom retired from the Post Office in 1901. We have collated a wealth of biographical information on these individuals, and many U3A members went on to develop longer pieces of life-story writing about the pensioners they were researching.
South-West England
- Henry Austin
- William Henry Barrow (content warning: sexual violence)
- William H. Bartlett
- Charles Belcher
- Alfred James Bond
- Thomas Brooks
- Robert Brown
- Charles Henry Chapman
- William Coombe
- George Coombes
- George Paul Dayman
- George Deacon
- John Durant
- Samuel Ecclestone
- Charles William Field
- Harry Fox (content warning: sexual violence)
- John Furneaux
- William Henry Green
- Frederick George Hancock
- Elizabeth Hodgson
- Daniel Horsham (content warning: suicide)
- Joseph Humphrey
- Eliza Ings
- James Jones
- Alfred Law
- George Thomas Morgan
- Herbert Morley
- Richard Hill Nance
- Frank Palmer
- William H. Rendle
- John D. Sampson
- John Shephard (content warning: inappropriate sexual behaviour)
- Emma Louise Simes
- Henry Sims
- Frederick Smart
- James Stacey
- George James Stephens
- Thomas Luke Terrill
- Charles Thomas
- John Tremewan
- James Tutty
- Walter Webb
- Joseph John Harris Williams
Scotland
- David Anderson
- Thomas Armstrong
- James Bell
- William Boyd
- William Brown
- James Bryson
- William K. Bryson
- Thomas Cairns
- Walter Clutterbuck
- Daniel Cruickshanks
- Andrew Dow
- David Gibson
- Margaret Grieve
- Alexander Hendry
- Jane J. Mackay
- John Maxwell
- John D. Maxwell
- Hugh McColl
- Alexander McGregor
- David Melville
- Alexander Munro
- David Murray
- Robert Murray
- Patrick L. Packman
- James B. Peebles
- James Polson
- James Ramsay
- John Reid
- John Ross
- William Russell
- William Simpson
- Christina S.E. Sutherland
- Andrew W. Thomson
- James Thomson