Vital Statistics
Robert William Pinsent: 1948 – 2024 GRO00753 (Advertising Executive, Kingston upon Thames)
- Wife (GRO1431)
Married: 1973: Richmond upon Thames
- Wife (GRO1432)
Married: 1977: Surrey Northern
Children by Wife (GRO1432):
Son (GRO1063)
Daughter (GRO1064)
Family Branch: Devonport
PinsentID: GRO0753
Robert William Pinsent was the son of Harold William Pinsent by his wife, Mary (“Mollie”) Swain, née Robinson. His father was a “Plumber” who, with his brother Stanley, had helped create the firms of “Pinsent, Bros, Plumbers” of #13 Ronelean Road, in Surbiton, and “Pinsent Bros Builders” of #102 Grierson Road, in Forest Hill, S.E. after the war. Robert was born in 1948. He was to have a younger sister.
According to a letter that Mollie Pinsent wrote to my father in 1972, she and her then-late husband had hoped that Robert would join the family firm when he grew up; however, his interests were elsewhere, and he elected to go into advertising. He was working for the “Guardian Newspaper”.
Robert married twice. His first marriage took place in 1973 but did not last long. He remarried, in 1977 and had a son and a daughter by his second wife in the1980s. They are probably alive today. The family was by then living in Kingston upon Thames.
In 1996, Robert William applied to the Elmbridge authorities for “two sets of 1.9 metres high brick piers and wrought iron gates” for the entry to Furze Lodge, in Oxshott (Esher News and Mail: Wednesday 6th March 1996). Given his family background, he would have been aware of “City Hall’s” role when it came to permitting. The application may have required an amendment as he later applied for the retention of two 2.1-metre-high brick piers to go with the gates (Esher News and Mail: Wednesday 3rd July 1996). Presumably he received the necessary approvals.
Note: Robert’s wife was a tennis player who met with local success. Although she lost in the finals of the “Ladies’ Singles” at the Oxshott Village Club finals in 1994 (Esher New and Mail: 13th July 1994: Photograph), she won the “Ladies’ Singles” and, with her partner, was runner up in the “Mixed Doubles” events the following year (Esher News and Mail: Wednesday 28th June 1995).
Robert and his wife moved to Bognor Regis, in Sussex, in the 2000s and he died there in 2024. His wife was a member of the Bognor Regis Golf Club in 2025.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Alfred Charles Pinsent: 1877 – 1948
Grandmother: Mabel Winifred Davis: 1882 – 1949
Parents
Father: Harold William Pinsent: 1910 – 1967
Mother: Mary Swain Robinson: 1919 – xxxx
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Stanley Arthur Pinsent: 1903 – 1985
Charles Alfred Pinsent: 1905 – 1961
Winifred Mabel Pinsent: 1906 – xxxx
Harold William Pinsent: 1910 – 1967
Gladys Pinsent: 1912 – 1959
Rosetta Mary Pinsent: 1914 – 2004
Eva Violet Pinsent: 1922 – 1990
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