Later Life
Initially Bain made a considerable sum from his inventions but, due to poor investments, became poor, and in 1873, Sir William Thomson, Sir William Siemens, Latimer Clark and others obtained a Civil List pension for Bain from Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone of £80 per year.
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