Late Mr. H. C. Pinsent: Solicitor’s Work for the Cause of Education: The death is announced of Mr. Hume Chancellor Pinsent, a prominent member of the well-known firm of Birmingham solicitors, Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co. Mr. Pinsent, who was 62, and died at Foxcombe Hill, near Oxford, practised at the Chancery Bar in London until 1888, when he settled in Birmingham as a member of the firm. He retired from business in 1913. Mr. Pinsent was associated with many movements directed towards the progress of education in the city. He joined the Council of the Midland Institute in 1897. For some time, he was a governor of Mason College; subsequently a member of the Council of the University and was elected hon. treasurer in 1912.
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920