Birmingham Law Society: Memorials to the Late Mr. G. J. Johnson: Tablet Unveiled at the Library: The annual meeting of the Birmingham Law Society was held this afternoon at the Law Library, Wellington Passage: Mr. A. H. Coley (president) occupied the chair. Before the formal business of the meeting there were two interesting functions, – the unveiling of a memorial in the shape of a brass tablet – to the late Mr. G. J. Johnson, and the investing of the president with a chain of office to be known as the “the G. J. Johnson Memorial Chain.” Mr. R. A. Pinsent, who invested the president with the beautiful chain of office, said that to those who knew Mr. Johnson as “G. J.” and to those who only knew him as Mr. Johnson, no memorial was, of course, wanted. His high sense of honour, his marked ability, his fairness, and his kindness would never be forgotten, but another generation would arise to whom he could only be a name, and the wish of those present was that a future generation would be able to say he was a man of whom his contemporaries thought so highly that they commemorated his qualities in that manner …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948