Author: Robert

East London Observer: 8th October 1892

United Star Order of Oddfellows: Lodge No. 13: The usual meeting of this lodge was held on Tuesday at Bro. Charles Martin’s, the “Telegraph,” Hawkins Street, Mile End, with Bro. Porter in the chair and Bro. Torr in the vice chair, supported by Bros. Batson, (P.N.G.), Reid, Everton, and Potter, Trustees R. Long, Saw and Green, Bros. Lawson, Hardy, Ellis, Armsby, Pinsent (P.N.G.) and Robinson (P.N.G. and General Secretary). The general business having been disposed of, the lodge was closed, and afterwards re-opened for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to P.N.G. Adcock, the general treasurer of the Order for valuable and general services rendered to the Order. The testimonial took the form of a handsome frame of silhouettes executed by the well-known P.N.G. Pinsent. Bros.  Green, and Batson, of No. 13 Lodge were also presented with a medal for introducing the most members to the lodge during the past quarter … … The chairman, P.N.G. Robinson, then addressed the meeting at some length, mentioning how the Order started under difficulties with only nine members, and had gradually increased to at present about 1,500, and was in a fair financial position – a statement received with applause. … … The health of Bros. Robinson, Edbrook, Pinsent, C. Martin and son, and Bro. Adcock and his newly taken wife were drunk with musical honours and responded to … … The remainder of the evening was devoted to harmony, those contributing being Bros. Bancroft, Pinsent, Finch, Armsby, Redpath, Reid, Tilling and Messrs. Killick, Plunket, and McCarthy. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

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Morning Post: Monday 3rd October 1892

Jenny’s Case: by Ellen F. Pinsent: – (short, one paragraph reviews from) … “Scotsman”, “Glasgow Herald”, “Daily Chronicle”, “Daily Graphic” and “Literary World”.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Queen: Saturday 1st October 1892

Advertisement: Jenny’s Case: By Ellen F. Pinsent: … includes a series of short one-paragraph review from … Scotsman, Glasgow Herald, Daily Chronicle, Daily Graphic, Literary World, … plus: … Jenny’s Case: By ELLEN F. PINSENT. Swan Sonnonachein and Co…. In these stories of English rural life there is a sad sameness among themselves, and a sad resemblance to real life. In that most tragic tale of “A Village Tragedy,” the motive was very much the same as in the present book, and no one who knows what English village life is can dare to say it is improbable. Jenny’s case is only too common a one, though all do not go on to the bitter end that seems literally forced upon this poor girl. Jenny is a farm-servant, a workhouse orphan with not a friend in the world, and a harsh and unsympathetic worrying mistress. Her prettiness attracts the village loafer, and for her sake the idle youth of good hard-working parents resolves to turn over a new leaf and work hard and honestly to provide a home for the girl he loves with all his heart. This is no easy matter for a lad with his reputation, but he is on the very point of success when he finds that poor Jenny has succumbed to the attractions of the great catch of the village—the policeman. That a man of such negotiability, so sought after and admired, should pay her, the despised workhouse drudge, attentions is too much for Jenny. She yields to fashion and respectability, as her betters have done, and clings fondly to the scoundrel’s promise of marriage. ” Mart,” when he finds her faithless, has a big drink, loses his newfound situation, enlists, and for a time passes out of the story. Jenny’s faithless lover marries a girl with money and adroitly manages to let the blame of ill-doing fall on the absent Mart. Jenny is dismissed in disgrace, and the one being in the world who has a kind word for her is Mart’s mother. But she will not stay with her to bring trouble to the old woman but finds her way to the nearest big town. Mart, when he hears at last of her ruin, deserts his regiment, and, with a stumbling, unconscious sort of blundering heroism wrecks his life, as he had been willing to redeem it, to save her. The story is powerful in its very quietness and rigid adherence to truth. The cottage life, the speech and thoughts of the labouring poor, are caught and set down in all their littleness, their simplicity, their small cunning, their pathetic helplessness, and most submissive resignation. Nowhere are the characters forced or strained, descriptions are not overdone, but the tragic story goes apparently blundering on, as such stories do go on around us. We hope the authoress will pursue the line she has marked out for herself and make for English rural life what Mr. Besant has for the city toilers, and Charles Egbert Craddock for the Tennessee settlers – a place in fiction of its own.

[see similar: Bristol Times and Mirror: Saturday 15th October 1892]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Colonies and India: Saturday 1st October 1892

Per P. & O. Co.’s Steamer “Chusan” (Captain W. E. Thompson) to leave London September 30:  For Madras … (list includes) … Mr. F. H. D. Pinsent …

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GRO0331 India: Frederick Henry Davison Pinsent: 1852 – 1902

Colonies and India: Saturday 24th September 1892

Per P. & O. Co.’s Steamer “Chusan” (Captain W. E. Thompson) to leave London September 30:  For Calcutta … list includes … Mr. Pinsent …

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GRO0331 India: Frederick Henry Davison Pinsent: 1852 – 1902

Bromsgrove and Droitwich Advertiser: Saturday 3rd September 1892

New Company, Capon, Heaton & Co. (Limited): This company is registered with a capital of £20,000 in £10 shares, for the purpose of requiring the business of India-rubber and gutta-percha manufacturers, hitherto carried on by Capon, Heaton and Co., Lifford Mills, King’s Norton, and to develop and extend the same. The first subscribers to the memorandum of association are: H. Heaton, jun., Bromsgrove; A. Baker, Augustus Road, Edgbaston; H. Heaton, Harborne; J. W. Boothroyd, Finsbury Park, London, J. Armitage, Torquay; R. A. Pinsent, Selly Wick, Birmingham; and J. H. Rice, Albert Road Aston …

[see also Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 2nd September 1892]

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 13th August 1892

Newton Football Club: Annual General Meeting: … finances … On the proposition of Mr. T. Wills, seconded by Mr. Williams, the vice-presidents were re-elected en bloc, and it was left with the committee to any addition to the list they may think desirable. The Vice-Presidents are: – Lord Clifford, Mr. Seale-Hayne, M.P. Hon. R. Dawson, Mr. R. H. M. Baker, Mr. L. Bearne, C.C., Mr. A. A. Bearne, Dr. H. S. Hill, Rev. T. W. Hudson, Mr. H. B. Mapleton, Mr. W. S. Pinsent, Rev. A. H. Simms, Mr. Wm. Vicary, C.C., Mr. W. J. Watts, and Mr. W. M. Ball. The next business was the appointment of captain for the next season, and the Chairman, before it was preceded with, pointed out that it was a serious matter and should be carefully considered. Several names were submitted … (discussion) …

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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Monday 8th August 1892

Barnabas Chesshire Deceased: Pursuant to the Stature 22 and 23 Victoria, cap. 35, Notice is hereby given that all persons having any Claims against the Estate of Barnabas Chesshire, late of 162 Hagley Road, Edgbaston in the city of Birmingham Solicitor (who died 9th day of June 1892 and whose Will and Codicils were proved in the Birmingham District Registry of the Probate Division of her Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 7th Day of July 1892, by the Rev. James Lamb Chesshire and Richard Alfred Pinsent, two of the Executors therein named) are hereby required to send written particulars of such claims to the undersigned solicitors for the said executors of the deceased, on or before the 30th day of September 1892, after which date the said executors will distribute the assets of the deceased having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have received notice. Dated this 2nd day of August 1892. Smith Pinsent and Co. 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, Solicitors for the Executors: … … Also … … William Barker, Deceased: … (similar) …

(see also on other dates).

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

The Field: Saturday 30th July 1892

Field topics of the Week: … Angling … Lady Pinsent on Sea Trout:

(see elsewhere).

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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922

Evening Mail: Wednesday 20th July 1892

Law Cases: July 19th: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: (Present: Lord Watson, Lord Hobhouse, Lord Herschell, Lord MacNaghten, Lord Morris, Lord Hannen, Sir Richard Couch and Lord Shand): Walker v. Baird and Another: This was an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland of March 18th 1891. The Attorney-General, Mr. Staveley Hill, Q.C. and Mr. A. T. Lawrence were counsel for the appellant; Sir James S. Winter, Q.C. (of the Newfoundland Bar), Mr. J. B. C. Munro, and Mr. T. Arnold Herbert for the respondents. The case was one of great importance. The action was brought in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland by the present respondents, Mr. James Baird and Mr. Edward Leroux, against Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.N. commanding her Majesty’s ship Emerald, alleging that on or about the 25th of June, 1890, he wrongfully entered their messuage and premises, situate at Fishell’s River, in Bay St. George, and took possession of their lobster factory and of a large quantity of gear, material, and implements appertaining thereto, and kept possession of the same for a long time, and prevented the plaintiffs (the respondents) from carrying on the business of catching and preserving lobsters at their factory of which he then still held possession. They claimed $5,000 and an Injunction to restrain Sir Baldwin Walker from continuing in possession of the property. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker in his defence said that he is captain of her Majesty ship Emerald, and the senior officer of the ships of the Queen employed during the then current season on the Newfoundland fisheries. To him as such senior officer and captain was committed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, by command of her Majesty, the care and charge of putting in force and giving effect to an agreement embodied in a modus vivendi for the lobster in Newfoundland during the season, which, as an act and matter of State and public policy, had been by her Majesty entered into with the Government of the Republic of France. … (continues at length – implies need for mutual consent between both parties) … The matter was argued before the Chief Justice (Sir F. B. T. Carter) and Mr. Justice Pinsent on February 6, 9, 10, 1891. Their Lordships gave judgment for the respondents on the grounds – briefly stated – (1) that in an action of this description to which the parties are British subjects for trespass committed within British territory in time of peace it is no sufficient answer to say, in exclusion of the jurisdiction of the municipal courts that the trespass was an “act of State,” committed under the authority of an agreement or modus vivendi with a foreign Power; (2) that in such as case, as between the Queen’s subjects, the questions of the validity, interpretation, and effect of all instruments and evidences of title and authority rest, in the first place with the Court of competent jurisdiction within which the cause of action arises; (3) and that therefore the decision on the present issue, which is confined to these points, is found in favour of the plaintiffs with leave to the defendant, should it be desired to amend on payment of costs. From the judgement the present appeal was instituted. … (continues and then adjourned) …

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893