South Devon Will: Mr. William Swain Pinsent, of Newton Bushel, Devon, for many, years a member of the Highweek Parish Council, and Chairman on the amalgamation with the Newton Abbot Urban District, a successful exhibitor of trotting horses, who died on September 4th has left estate of the value £32,548 5s 2d, the net personalty being £30,361 14s 7d. The will is dated November 3rd, 1919, and probate thereof is granted to John Douglas Pinsent of 2, Southsea-terrace, Southsea, son, and Arthur S. Rendell, and Gerald Douglas Woollcombe: both of Newton Abbot. He gives £600 to his grand-daughter Dorothy Iris Prall, £250 to Arthur S. Rendell, £50 to Gerald D. Woollcombe, £100 to his housekeeper Margaret E. Rowe, and the residue of the property as to four-tenths to his son, John Douglas; two tenths each in trust for his daughters Ethel Mary Vaughan and Kathleen Blanche Prall, and two-tenths in trust for his son William Henry.
[see also Western Times: 19th October 1920:]
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Referenced
GRO0282 Devonport: Ethel Mary Pinsent: 1869 – xxxx
GRO0520 Devonport: John Douglas Pinsent: 1872 – 1936
GRO0559 Devonport: Kathleen Blanche Pinsent: 1871 – 1949
GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920