Discussion on Birmingham University Law School … Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Law in the University of Birmingham (Professor C. E. Smalley-Baker) … Tribute to Sir Richard Pinsent: The general report announces the impending resignation from the committee of Sir Richard Pinsent, whose record, it states, is unique in the history of the solicitors’ profession in the city and exceptional in that of the country. Sir Richard was admitted as a solicitor in 1873. He was president of the Birmingham Law Society from 1901 to 1903 and again in 1926-27. In 1918-19 he was president of the Law Society for England and Wales. In 1913 he was elected a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Society, and in 1928 he became its chairman, an office which he held until his resignation in 1938. The report places on record appreciation of the noteworthy services he has rendered the profession. Membership of the society is now 466, an increase of six. A register of practices is now kept, and already contains information of considerable historical interest. It has been used to assist in tracing documents prepared by solicitors or firms no longer in practice. The committee calls the attention of members to the advisability of placing old deeds and records in the local authorised repositories, where they will be cared for and made available for the historian. The society has passed its 120th year. Mr. H. W. Lyde is president and Mr. G. C. Barrow and Mr. J. F. Crowder joint honorary secretaries and treasurers.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948