Author: Robert

Express and Echo: Friday 1st April 1887

The Jubilee in Devon: Newton Abbot: An adjourned meeting was held at the Alexandra Hall, Newton, last evening under the presidency of Mr. W. Watts, to consider what steps should be taken to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. Mr. C. Pope (hon. secretary) read the report of the Committee appointed to ascertain the relative cost of carrying out the different schemes and the amount of the subscriptions towards each. The committee was informed that a building for swimming and washing baths would cost about £1,500. This would be exclusive of washhouses or the purchase of the rent of the ground. The annual costs and expenditure were estimated at about £100. A suggested site in Kingsteignton Road, the property of Mr. J. B. Pinsent was found to be unobtainable. Another site adjoining the Bark Mill and near the Kingsteignton Road could possibly be obtained at a rental of £25 per annum … 

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

Western Times: Wednesday 30th March 1887

Newton:  Accident: On Monday evening a man named Wonnacott, assistant-brewer in Messrs. Pinsent’s establishment fell over the stairs at the Brewery and broke his leg. He was taken to his residence in Tudor Road and attended to by Dr. Haydon’s assistant, and subsequently by Dr. Scott.

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 26th March 1887

Mid-Devon Conservative Union: A meeting of the members of the above Union was held at the Globe Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. W. Lethbridge (president) presided, and there were also present … (list includes) … H. Pinsent …

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GRO0412 Hennock: Henry Pinsent: 1844 – 1894

Madras Weekly Mail: Wednesday 23rd March 1887

Masonic: the members of Lodge John Miller, held their monthly meeting last evening in the Lodge Rooms Broadway, when worshipful Brother Pratt was installed as Worshipful Master for the ensuing years … (continues) … The other Lodges in Madras were represented as follows: Lodge Perfect Unanimity, by Wor. Brother C. Pinsent, W. M. and a few members …

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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904

West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser: Thursday 17th March 1887

Hunt Ball at Camelford: The Harrier Hunt Ball took place at the King’s Arms Hotel on Tuesday and was largely attended. Dancing commenced at nine o’clock and continued with great animation until the small hours of the next morning. Subjoined is a list of those present: … Gentlemen … (includes) … Capt. Pinsent …

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Sheffield Telegraph: Thursday 3rd March 1887

The Holt Brewery Company (Limited) Birmingham; The subscription list will be closed on 10th March for Town and Country: Share Capital L. 200,000, divided into 5,000 6 per cent cumulative preference shares of L. 10 each, and 15,000 ordinary shares of L. 10 each: … Solicitors: Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent, Waterloo Street, Birmingham: … (Prospectus) … Applications for shares must be made on the forms accompanying the prospectus and forwarded together with a deposit of 10s per share to the bankers of the Company, the Birmingham Dudley and District Banking Company (Limited), Birmingham, or its London Agents, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Company, 54 Lombard Street, E. C., from whom and from the Solicitors, Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent and at the offices of the Company, 76 Holt Street, Birmingham, prospectuses and forms of application can be obtained …

[see also Morning Post: Thursday 3rd March 1887]

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London Daily Chronicle: Wednesday 2nd March 1887

Prospectus: Holt Brewery Company Limited … (discussion) … solicitors: Messrs. Barlow, Smith & Pinsent, Waterloo Street, Birmingham … (continues)

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London Daily Chronicle: Tuesday 1st March 1887

Printer: seeks a permanency: aged 22, used to single cylinder machine, likewise engine and boiler, 6 year’s reference. Address W. Pinsent, 2, Albany villas, Seaford Road, Stamford Hill. …

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Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 19th February 1887

Masonry in Madras: We learn from the Madras Mail of January 12 that at a meeting of Lodge Perfect Unanimity. No. 150, held at the Masonic Hall, Mount Road, Madras, on Monday, the 10th ult. Brother Charles Pinsent was installed Worshipful Master for the year 1887. The following officers were also appointed and invested: Brothers W. G. Pavey, Senior Warden; F. H. D. Pinsent, Junior Warden; E. S. Traill Straith, Treasurer; D. Ross-Johnson; Secretary; J. S. Biscoe, Senior Deacon; Herbert Bradley, Junior Deacon; E. Wallis; D.C., H. M. Prior, Inner Guard; A. Cooper, Tyler. This lodge is the oldest in the Presidency and has recently received a warrant from the Prince of Wales. Most Worshipful Grand Master of English Freemasonry, authorising the members to wear a centenary jewel, the lodge having been worked for an unbroken period of one hundred years. Two other lodges in Bengal were also allowed this privilege, namely, “Star in the East” No.67 and ”Industry and Perseverance”‘ No. 109, the former in the year 1848, and the latter in 1872: but, according to many books of Masonic History. Lodge Perfect Unanimity was the first established in British India. One of the first brethren initiated in this lodge was H.H. Omdit-ul-Omra Bahadur, eldest son of the Nabob of the Carnatic, in the year 1779. The first Worshipful Master installed, when the lodge was finally established at Madras, was Wor. Brother Colly Lyons Lucas, Rt. Wor. Bro. Brigadier-General Horne being at the time Provincial Grand Master. The lodge has also numbered amongst its members many men well known in Madras history.

[The Messrs. Pinsent above-mentioned are sons of Mr. H. J. Pinsent. of Bassett, late of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.]

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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904
GRO0331 India: Frederick Henry Davison Pinsent: 1852 – 1902
GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894

Leicester Chronicle: Saturday 29th January 1887

Treat to workpeople: On Saturday evening the work people of Mr. S. Hilton, Paragon Boot works, Belgrave, were entertained in one of the rooms of the works to celebrate the opening of a new wing at the south end of the buildings, when nearly 200 sat down to a capital repast. Mr. J. G. Mould was voted to the chair, and the following programme was gone through in excellent style: … (includes) … duet, “That’s how you get served when you’re old,” by Messrs. Pinsent and Lumley … … toasts … … Mr. Hilton suitably replied, and dwelt on the amicable relations between himself and his workpeople, remarking that during the fourteen year he had been in business no strike had occurred, and no dispute had arisen except of a trivial character, which by common sense and moderation on each side was easily settled. …

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