Dear List, The National Archives [Kew] have a very handy currency converter... I ran Stewart's query through it and these are the results. Note that the years are presented in five yearly intervals, so 1915 is the closest to 1916. Also it has only been kept up to date to 2005. Find out how much yesterday's (1270-1970) money was worth in 2005. In 1915, £109 7s 6d would have the same spending worth of 2005's £4,709.69 So, certainly a tidy sum! The link to the currency converter is: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/ Regards, Wendy Leahy shadowsoftime.co.nz > Topic: Indian Police Pension value in today's terms > > My great-grandfather served with the Indian Police between the years > 1885 and 1916. He retired in 1916 as a District Superintendent of > Police. His monthly pension on retirement was ?109 7s 6d. I was > interested to find out how much this equates to in today?s money so I > entered the figures into an inflation calculator on the internet and > it returned a whopping ?10 045.63 per month. Could this be correct? > In my own currency this equates to ZAR200 000 a month. It seems an > awful lot of money. > > On another note, can anyone tell me how senior the rank of District > Superintendent of Police was in the hierarchy. Would there still have > been ranks above him? > > Stewart Green, stewartgreen372@gmail.com > << > >