Birmingham Education Committee: The Chamberlain Celebration: At this afternoon’s meeting of the Birmingham Education Committee, Councillor G. H. Kenrick presiding, the Chairman of the Elementary Education Sub-committee (Mr. Coley) brought forward a letter from Sir John Holder, who, on the occasion of the public celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Mr. Chamberlain’s birth, desired to present to very boy and girl attending the public elementary schools in Birmingham a small brooch or badge bearing a portrait of Mr. Chamberlain with an inscription recording the date of his birth and that of the celebration. … The Higher Education sub-committee reported having received from Mrs. Hume Pinsent, £50 to be added to the fund for assisting pupil teachers to proceed to training college by means of loans, to be repaid when they re-enter the service of the committee at the end of their college course as assistant teachers. Mr. Cary Gilson expressed the appreciation of the committee for Mrs. Pinsent’s gift. The report was adopted.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949