The New Chief Magistrate: When Major J. R. Pinsent, the Mayor, was welcomed on the Bench as Chief Magistrate on Friday morning he said he had had experience in the administration of justice at Courts Martial, and if there was anything in inheriting such things, he thought he could learn the duties as his aged father, who was now 85, had for many years been chairman of the Discipline Committee of the Law Society.
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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957