Queen’s Birthday Honours: The Queen has been pleased to approve that the Earl of Jersey, Paymaster-general, and William Lawies Jackson, Esq., M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, be admitted to her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council … also … Her Majesty has also been pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon … (list includes) … Robert John Pinsent, Esq., D.C.L., Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland … (elsewhere) … Mr. Robert J. Pinsent was called to the Bar in 1856, appointed a member of the Newfoundland Legislative Council in 1858, was created a Queen’s Counsel in 1865, and a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court in 1880, and received the degree of D.C.L. at Lambeth Palace, in 1881. …
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893