Newton Abbot: Petty Sessions: Tuesday: Before Admiral Cornish-Bowden (chairman), General Reynell Taylor, and H. E. Brown, D. R. Scratton, and G. B. Ellicombe, Esqrs. The jury lists of most of the parishes in the Division were revised, and the necessary alteration made in instances of over-age and non-residence. Bishopsteignton, Stokeinteignhead, and Haccombe were unrepresented. Messrs. Pinsent and Co., brewers, of Newton Abbot, applied through Mr. W. Creek, solicitor, for the transfer of the license of the Victory Inn, West Teignmouth, which house has been taken down by the Great Western Railway Company in their removal of the tunnel, to the new premises erected near the site of the old inn. It was explained that the tenant for 15 years of the old Victory Inn was Mr. Lewis Galsworthy, who was also to be the tenant of the new premises. No complaint had ever been made against the house, or as to the manner in which the business had been conducted: The application was opposed by Mr. S. Hacker, instructed by Mr. S. Churchill, on behalf of the Church of England Temperance Society. In support of the opposition, a memorial was produced, signed by the Vicars of East and West Teignmouth and about 150 of the inhabitants, on the grounds that the premises were not convenient for the purpose to which it was sought to be put and that there were four other licenses houses in the immediate locality. The Bench refused the application: On the application of Mr. J. B. Tompkins, secretary of the Newton Coffee Tavern Company, a bagatelle license for the coffee tavern was granted.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901