Birmingham Education Committee: … The Higher Education Sub-committee reported having received from Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent £50 to be added to the fund for assisting pupil teachers to proceed to training college by means of loans, to be repaid when they re-enter the service of the committee at the end of their college course as assistant teachers. Mr. Cary Gilson expressed the appreciation of the committee for Mrs. Pinsent’s gift. The report was adopted. … Mrs. Pinsent, as chairman of the Special Schools Sub-Committee proposed the acceptance of the proposal of the Rev. H. N. Burden, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded for the establishment of a boarding school for mentally defective children at Sandwell Hill, West Bromwich. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949