Custody of a Child: The Court of Appeal yesterday dealt with an appeal by Mrs. Mary lsobel Pynsent, of Datchet. Bucks, from an order of Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane giving the custody of her seven-year-old daughter Joan Isobel, to her husband, Mr. Robert Burton Pynsent, of Eastbourne Mr. Marshall Hall, K.C. for the appellant, said Mrs. Pynsent’s case was that her husband was a man of ungovernable temper and in May last she filed a petition for judicial separation, alleging cruelty. That petition had not yet been heard, but pending the trial the wife urged that she was entitled to the custody of the child Joan. There were three children of the marriage, a boy aged nine who was at school, the child Joan and baby girl of two years the custody of whom had been given to the mother. After hearing counsel on both sides, the Court dismissed the appeal, but directed, by consent, that the first part of the child’s holiday in the coming vacation should be spent with the mother and the latter portion with her father.
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GRO0487 Hennock: Joan Isobel Pynsent: 1909 – 1998
GRO0617 Hennock: Mary Isobel Addie: 1879 – 1956
GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953