CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE TAXATION: The Devon Central Chamber of Agriculture met on Wednesday in the Newton Abbot Town Hall to hear an address by the President, Mr. C. J. Wade, on “Taxation, with especial reference to that levied under the name of ‘Poor-Rate,’ and the exemption from that rate of incomes arising from personal property.” Mr. Wade presided. There were present: Revs. O. Wolston and J. M. Hawker, Dr. Barham, Dr. Haydon, Messrs. C, H. Mallock, A. Crowdy, E. S. Bearne, J. Creed, A. Wise, W. Bragg, E. Ford, J. Bowden, G. Stooke, S. Bartlett, T. Wills, W. Coulton, T. Major, J. Chapman, J. Wills, G. Wills, J. Harris, J. Bowden, H. H. Watson, W. Ellis, W. Shapley, T. Wintle, T. Fairweather, W. Hooper, S. Harris, T. Knowles, O. Nosworthy, J. B. Oldreive, W. Vooght, W. Sowton, T. Bond, W. Wolland, J. Woolley, E. Bovey, R. Heyward, J. Blackler, T. Stranger, J. Pethybridge, T. Tripe, J. Vooght, J. Soper, J. Bickford, W. Nosworthy, T. Shilston, J. Alsop, T. Widger, T. Barber, A. Furneanx, W. Reed, W. Roberts, J. Pinsent, G. Cuming, W. Rowell, W. Norrish, R. Northcott, G. Pinsent, and C. H. S. Veale (Secretary of the Chamber). Mr. Wade said poor rates were first levied during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the principle upon which the Act compelling those rates to be levied was based was that they were properly chargeable on the occupiers of the fixed and settled wealth of the kingdom …
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GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918
GRO0492 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1838 – 1916 (?)