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Henry James Pinsent was the only son of Henry Pinsent by his wife, Mary (née Langmead). He took over the tenancy of the family farm at “Whitstone,” in Bovey Tracey, in 1894, when his father died. Henry James married Kate Hewett, a farmer’s daughter from Seale, near Farnham, in Surrey, on 17th April 1900 and they had a son, Henry Hewett Pinsent, at “Whitstone” the following January. His parents moved to “Lode Farm”, at Kingsley, Alton, in Hampshire shortly afterwards and they were there by the time their second child, Marion Pinsent, was born in 1904. Henry Hewett was technically a Devonian but he never really knew the place.
Henry James Pinsent’s injury appears in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, February 11, 1892.
Henry James had grown up on a mixed farm and he was a known to be an effective farmer, despite his having injured his arm through the poor handling of a gun in 1892. He had placed a loaded gun against a hurdle while tending a sheep and it had discharged as he grabbed the barrel to pick it up. In the process, he badly damaged his right hand and forearm (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Thursday 11th February 1892). Nevertheless, he seems to have functioned reasonably well and he even played billiards for the local team in 1895 (Western Times: Saturday 7th December 1895)!
Henry James Pinsent in the 1891 census.
Henry James, like his father before him, had some level of success in local agricultural competitions. For instance, his entry “Perfection” fetched 21 guineas at an “Exhibition and Sale of South Devon Cattle” held in Totnes in March 1899 (Western Times: Wednesday 22nd March 1899) and his collection of “six roots of each kind” (mangolds, swedes and turnips) came first at the “Newton Abbot Fat Stock (and vegetable) Show” in December that year. Henry was asked to judge the sheep in 1899 (Western Times: Thursday 7th December 1899) and was, thus, unable to compete in that particular category. The following year, he did well in the “Judge the Weight” of a bullock competition at the “Totnes Fat Stock Show”. His estimate of 6 cwt. 3 qrts 6 lbs came in fifth, being only two pounds short (Western Times: Tuesday 11th December 1900)!
Map of Bovey Tracey.
One of Henry’s horses, a roan mare, got loose in Kenn in September 1900 and he advertised for its return (Western Times: Monday 3rd September 1900). Whether he got it back or not, is not recorded.
Henry purchased a bull in 1901 (Totnes Weekly Times: Saturday 23rd March 1901). Why, I am not sure as he was planning to move before long. In the meantime, he had a farm to run and accidents will happen. Later that year, Henry was called to give evidence at the inquest of a five year old boy, Edwin Winsor, who had fallen from a wagon-load of timber. The boy’s abdominal injuries proved to be fatal. The Jury placed no blame on the wagoner and returned a verdict of “Accidental Death” and (Western Morning News: Friday 28th June 1901).
In 1903, Rendell and Symons (the “auctioneers”) were called upon to find a new tenant to take over at “Whitstone” as of Lady Day (25th March 1903). The farm, which was owned Mr. W. R. A. Hole, J.P., C.C., was said to consisted of 247 acres, 1 rude and 10 perches; including 71 acres of pasture and 11 of orchard, with a superior farmhouse, buildings and three cottages (Western Times: Friday 4th July 1902).
Report of the fire in the Western Times, July 18, 1902.
Unfortunately one of the cottages caught fire two weeks later! There was considerable damage but no loss of life. The occupant, Mr. Tremlett, who was one of Henry’s farm hands, was out at the time but his wife and five children were at home and they were, understandably, extremely shaken and upset. They were taken to “Whitstone”, where they were looked-after by Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent (Western Times: Friday 18th July 1902). The Bovey fire engines did what they could to extinguish the fire but most of the building and its contents were destroyed. The building was insured but the furnishings were not. The episode must have cast a shadow over the community, particularly as it came just after the presentation of a “silver loving cup” to Mr. William Gerald Hole the previous day. It was a gift made by the tenants of Parke Estate (including Henry James) to honour his coming of age (Western Times: Friday 18th July 1902).
Messrs. Rendell and Symons (“auctioneers”) sold off Henry James’s horses, pigs, fowls, implements of husbandry and furnishings the following February (Western Times: Friday 13th February 1903). Presumably, they had already disposed of his sheep and cattle. The family left “Whitstone” at the end of March and moved to “Lode Farm”, at Kingsley, near Alton in Hampshire. “Lode Farm,” which had been built around an old Royal (Tudor) hunting lodge was painted by Vincent Lines in 1942 and there are lithographic prints available on-line. Henry James’s uncles (John and Gilbert Pinsent) and Kate’s father seem to have persuaded him to leave Devon and move east into Hampshire. The previous occupant of his new farm – a Mr. J. W. Mitchell – had been a “prominent and successful agriculturalist” and well regarded breeder of cattle who had retired from farming in October 1902 (Hampshire Chronicle: Saturday 21st January 1905).
Notice of the sale appears in the Hampshire Observer and Basingstoke News, February 4, 1905.
Henry James and Kate moved into “Lode farm” sometime after Ladyday, 1903 and their daughter, Marion Pinsent, was born there the following year. Henry James built up a considerable inventory of life-stock and machinery on arrival – as one would have expected if he planned run the farm for several years; however, it was not to be. Their tenancy was to be short lived. We find that he instructed Messrs. James Harris and Son (“auctioneers”) to sell his 61 head of cattle and his farm equipment on 10th February 1905 (Hampshire Chronicle: Saturday 4th February 1905). At the same time, he instructed them to sell off all his household furniture, including carpets, mahogany and other furniture, an eight-day clock, a 7-octave cottage pianoforte and miscellaneous other items three days later (Hampshire Observer and Basingstoke News: Saturday 4th February 1906). The usual practice was to sell off the life-stock the autumn before leaving, which suggests the decision to leave was a hurried one. Why they left, I do not know.
The R.M.S. Ionian via NorwayHeritage.com
Henry James went out to Canada and his wife, Kate, took the the children out a few months later. The family settled in British Columbia. Their son, Henry Hewett’s (much later) application for U.S. Citizenship submitted to the “U.S. Department of Labour” noted that he (a.k.a “Harry”) had arrived in Montreal on the “S.S. Ionian” with his mother and sister in May 1906. He would have been five years old. Presumably his father had already acquired a farm in Vernon, British Columbia. The 1921 Canadian Census shows that Henry James and Kate (nee Hewett), and their daughter, Marion, were still farming at Mabel Lake, near Vernon in the 1920s. Marion married there, three years later.
The family is recorded in the 1921 Canadian census.
Henry H. Pinsent leaves on the S. S. Sherman from San Francisco, California on April 5, 1920.
Marion’s brother, Henry Hewett Pinsent forsook the farm and took to the sea. He was a single, 18 years old, “deckhand”, when he first arrived in Seattle on the “S.S. Princess” in 1919 and applied for entry into the United States (Seattle Passenger and Crew Lists). This was granted and he enlisted in the U.S. Army the following year. Henry Hewett was a “Private” attached to 104th Company (C.A.C) when it left San Francisco for the Philippines on 5th April 1920 (U.S. Army Transport Service Passenger List: 1910 – 1939: Ancestry.com) and a “Sergeant” when it went out to Honolulu in February 1923. Three years was enough, and he was honourably discharged from the army in April that year.
Henry Hewett Pinsent petitions for naturalization.
Service in the U.S. Army was an excellent route to Naturalization and he had no difficulty when he applied. According to his papers, Henry Hewett moved to Los Angeles and applied for Citizenship at the U.S. District Court for the Southern California, and duly renouncing his British Citizenship and swore his oath of allegiance to the United States on 17th June 1927. He was described as being 5ft 3.5in high, with brown hair and grey eyes.
Henry Hewett Pinsent settled in Los Angeles (California Voter Registrations) and returned to the merchant marine. He was a “cok(er)” in 1928, an “able seaman” in 1934 and a “seaman” in 1938. He took what he could get between ships and the United States 1930 Census tells us that he was an English born “dishwasher in a restaurant”. They were tough times! In September 1934, Henry applied for a “U.S. Seaman’s Protection Certificate” – essentially an identity card that proved his citizenship and stated that his last position had been as an “able seaman” on the “S.S. Nevadan.” The application provides a similar description to the one given when he applied for citizenship; however, it is endorsed by his photograph and thumb print!
Henry completes his application for seaman’s protection certificate.
There is no indication that he ever married. Henry Hewett Pinsent of #606 Front Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., died 2nd January 1938. Limited Administration was granted to Francis Mapleton Iremonger Watts, attorney for Kate Pinsent. This was probably his mother and not an, as yet unidentified, wife. His effects in England were valued at £97 18s (England and Wales: National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills & Administrations) 1858 – 1995).
Henry James Pinsent was thirty-four years old when he emigrated to Canada and started farming in British Columbia. He could have had more children; however, I am not aware of any. His daughter Marion married William Isaac Withrow in Vernon in 1924 and Henry James died three years later, in April 1927. He died in New Westminster, British Columbia at the age of fifty-four years (British Columbia Death Index: 1872-1979: Ancestry.com). His widow Kate, lived to be 94 years old. She probably became deaf in old age as she was an active member of the Vancouver area “Hard-of-Hearing league” in the 1940s (Vancouver Daily Province: 27th October 1942). She died in Burnaby, near Vancouver, British Columbia in March 1961.
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Ellen Anne Pinsent: 1871 – 1958 (Married George Tapper, 1890, Bovey Tracey, Devon) Henry James Pinsent: 1872 – 1927 (Married Kate Hewett, 1900, Farnham, Surrey) Mary Louise Pinsent: 1874 – 1904 (Married John Stevens Neck, 1901, Totnes, Devon)
Henry was the fourth son of John Pinsent by his wife Ann (née Brock). He was born at “Aller Barton” in Abbotskerswell in 1844 and was brought up with his elder brothers John Pinsent, Gilbert Pinsent and James Pinsent at “Ware Barton”, a farm in Kingsteington. By the time their father died, in 1858, John had already left home and it fell to Gilbert to take over the running of the farm with the help of his brothers James and Henry. James eventually emigrated to Australia. Their lives are discussed elsewhere.
Henry was fourteen years old when his father died. He lived at “Ware Barton” in the 1860s with his mother and brothers and the young men attended local events together. John, Gilbert and Henry heard a talk on “Middle Class Education” sponsored by the Devon “Central Chamber of Agriculture” and given by the local Member of Parliament in September 1869 (Western Times: Friday 10th September 1869). Henry seems to have been listening. He was later to be involved in local education.
Town Barton, Doddiscombsleigh.
Henry married Mary Langmead, a farmer’s daughter from Bovey Tracey, in Bovey Tracey, in 1870 and they moved into “Town Barton” farm in Doddiscombsleigh, which is a small parish just to the north of Ashton.
According to the census taken the following year, they farmed 215 acres with the help of five labourers and two domestic servants. They probably needed the latter as they had a three-month old daughter, Ellen Anne Pinsent by then. Their other children, Henry James and Mary Louise Pinsent arrived soon after.
Henry Pinsent appears in the 1871 census.
Henry is recognized for his work with a handsome tea and coffee service.
According to White’s Directory, the family was still living at “Town Barton” in 1878 and he must have been there two years later when he was appointed Clerk of the “Christow and Doddiscombleigh School Board”. Henry handled the paper work when the board went looking for a new schoolmistress, and when it changed its bylaws in 1880 (Western Times: Friday 27th February 1880; Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 17th December 1880).
When he left the district two years later, the School Board presented “their late honourary clerk” with a handsome tea and coffee service for his four years of service (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 21st July 1882). The School Board had been formed in 1875 and the school built in 1879 (White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory, 1878), so it would have been a busy time for them.
Henry also represented Doddiscombsleigh, and Christow, on the “Wonford Highway Board”, which monitored the activities of the region’s Surveyor and allocated money to improve the region’s roads and bridges. The “Surveyor reported that the bridge over College Lane Brook in the parish of Ide had recently fallen in or been thrown down” (Western Times: Saturday 4th December 1880). There was a lot to be done there as well.
The auction is announced in the local paper. Western Times, March 3, 1882.
I cannot find any mention of Henry and his family in the 1881 Census records; however, he must have been living at “Town Barton.” That was the year that he was one of three farmers from outside the Chudleigh District chosen to judge “farms and roots” at its annual show and ploughing competition (Western Times: Thursday 27th October 1881). Henry was shortly to leave Doddiscombsleigh and move his family to “Whitstone Farm” in Bovey Tracey – which was in the Chudleigh District! In March 1882, he arranged for the firm of Rendell and Symons, to sell his 40 “wether hoggets” (young males) 12 steers and heifers, 4 pigs a gelding and, most important, “10 hogsheads prime cider fit for bottling” – and much else besides – at auction at “Town Barton” on 9th March, 1882. He also sold the grass or grazing on 100 acres of land through to the following 25th March, Ladyday (Western Times Friday 3rd March 1882). He
Map of Bovey Tracey that shows Whitstone farm.
Interestingly, we find that a Mr. Wm. Langmead, of “Whitstone Farm” sold his stock, which included a very highly regarded flock of sheep, at much the same time (Western Times: Thursday 14th April 1881). He was leaving the county and he sold off his residual stock, implements of trade and furniture early in March the following year (Western Times: Friday 10th March 1882). Presumably, William Langmead was one of Mary’s relations and his vacating the property allowed Henry and his family to take over what was probably a larger and more productive farm. It is probably not a coincidence that the “wether hoggets” that Henry had sold had been bred from “Mr. W. Langmead’s ram.”
Henry next turns up at a dinner that was given by the Vicar of Bovey Tracey to acknowledge the half-yearly “tithe audit” – payment of parish dues (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 9th August 1882). It was an annual event and, from this year on, Henry becomes a regular attendee.
As a new arrival in Bovey Tracey, Henry offered up two of his fields for the “Chudleigh District Agricultural Society” annual ploughing competition in 1882. The contest was carried out in thick mud on a particularly rainy day in October. Nevertheless, Mr. Pinsent of Bovey was warded third prize for “best general green crop” and for “best crop of common turnips, not less than three acres” (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 25th October 1882). Whether Henry or Mr. Langmead, his predecessor, should have had the credit I am not sure. However, his green crops and his swedes came in second the following year (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette; Friday 19th October 1883) and he deserved full credit for that. He did better still in 1884, coming first in both categories. He was a strong supporter of the “Agricultural Society” and involved in it in some for or other for several years (Teignmouth Post and Gazette: Friday 11th November 1887).
Henry Pinsent lends his fields for use during a ploughing competition. Western Times, October 8, 1886.
One of Henry’s bulls came in third in its particular category in 1884 and his heifers and his rams and ewes did well too. While this was happening, Henry and two other farmers were busy judging the thatching and hedging events (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 5th October 1884). Henry was in demand! The “Dawlish Agricultural Association” asked him to serve on its panel of judges later that month (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 24th October 1884). In later years, Henry appears to have concentrated on sheep breeding and he regularly won awards. He seems to have focused on long-wool sheep (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 21st May 1887). He volunteered to host the ploughing competition for a second time in October 1886 (Western Times: Friday 8th October 1886).
Henry Pinsent is listed as a governor of the Bovey Tracey Grammar School. Western Times, May 2, 1890.
Henry was elected to the Newton Abbot “Board of Guardians” in 1883, and assigned to the “School Attendance Committee” to fill a vacancy created by the death of the previous representative from Bovey Tracey (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 20th April 1883). He was re-elected to the “Board of Guardians” annually throughout the 1880s. Admittedly, the seats were rarely contested (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Saturday 30th March 1889). Henry was on the Board of Governors of “Bovey Tracey Grammar School” in 1890 (Western Times: Friday 2nd May 1890), so clearly kept up his early interest in Education.
Henry Pinsent was assigned another civic duty. He was appointed to the Grand Jury at the Devon Quarter Sessions when they were held in Exeter in July 1883 (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 11th July 1883). Henry seems to have been a good neighbour himself. When he found a stray, Dartmoor breed, “wether hog” (i.e. castrated male ram) that had inadvertently strayed onto his land. He resisted the temptation to make mutton stew and advertised the fact in the local press (Western Times: Friday 9th May 1884). It was a fairly common occurrence for stock to wander and most of the farmers thereabouts knew better than to keep waifs and strays.
Politically, Henry was a Conservative who supported the formation of a “Conservative Association in Bovey Tracey”. He believed that English farmers needed protection “when wheat went below 6s a bushel the land could not be properly cultivated for want of sufficient means to employ ample labour upon it” (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 13th March 1885). His concerns showed through at a Vestry meeting held in April 1885. Some parishioners thought that the “Assistant Overseer”, who collected the rates, should receive a pay raise. However, Henry thought not, as it was inconsistent with the then downward tendency of wage rates. It was eventually agreed that the parish council should look into the payments made in neighbouring parishes (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams: Tuesday 14th April 1885) and report back before any decision was made. At the same meeting Henry was appointed a “way-warden” – which saw him returning to road management. Later that year, he supported Mr. W. J. Harris’s run for of parliament in the “Mid-Devon” Division in. He was one of his “Assessors” (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 28th November 1885).
Presumably his wife, Mary (née Langmead) supported his Conservatism. In May 1886, we find Henry attending a meeting of the “Bovey Tracey Habitation of the Primrose League”. The league was a vehicle for women to become involved in the Conservative movement (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 21st May 1886). Henry was still attending political meetings in November 1891 (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 7th November 1891).
Henry Pinsent’s father and his brother Gilbert Pinsent, who was then farming at “Ware Barton” in Kingsteignton, were “non-conformists,” and Henry’s sisters had all been married at the Independent Chapel in Newton Abbot. However, Henry seems to have been less committed to the chapel than they were. Nevertheless, he contributed £15 3s 6d to a special collection made by the local “dissidents” to pay off the final tranche of the cost of building their own Wesleyan Chapel in Bovey Tracey (Western Times: Friday 7th October 1887).
Henry was an important member of both the town and the parish of Bovey Tracey, and a prominent member of the Vestry; however, he was reluctant to spend money on the parish church (Western Times: Tuesday 21st April 1885). In the spring of 1885, there were several meeting to discuss the restoration of the chancel. In the end, an anonymous donor agreed to pay for some of it and the incumbent, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay was willing to pay for the rest. The plan was to remove the old-fashioned box pews and the replace the rood screen. At least the screen seems to have survived. The box pews had been assigned to local families for generations and their location bestowed status. Mr. W. R. Hole (President of the “Bovey Tracey Conservative Association”), who was a large contributor to the tithes in the parish, refused to give up his box (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 1st May 1885). There was an acrimonious vote on the proposal on 22nd April 1885 (Exeter Flying Post: Wednesday 6th May 1885). Henry complained that there had been unauthorized canvassing: “(he) regretted to say he had been canvassed for his vote by two or three. — Mr. Westwood challenged him name the party. He knew he had not done so. Mr. Pinsent declined to give the information asked. Mr. Baker said one person had mentioned that two oz. of “baccy” had been offered him to vote for the vicar.” (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 9th May 1885). The plan was approved but went ahead in the face of opposition.
Henry Pinsent’s letter is printed in the Western Morning News, December 23, 1886.
Tithes were an all too frequent cause of friction in the community as there were times when the economics of the agricultural economy favoured the farmer and times when it favoured the clergy. Henry answered one farmer’s complaint in the Western Morning News by saying: “For my own part I have never asked for, nor do I ever intend to sign a requisition to my clergyman for reduction of tithe as I consider it would be unreasonable having my farm subject to such charges. If a farm is too dear the proper person for me to make a complaint to is my landlord” (Western Morning News: Thursday 23rd December 1886).
Bovey Tracey was a large parish and the Churchyard and the Baptist burial ground were just about full. The Vestry reassembled in March 1889 to discuss the problem and a committee was formed … (Exeter Flying Post: Saturday 30th March 1889). Several parishioners favoured buying ground immediately adjacent to the Churchyard regardless of cost; however a new, presumably cheaper, site was eventually selected and purchased (Totnes Weekly Times: Saturday 28th September 1889).
The newly renovated parish church was back in action in May 1889 when Mr. J. L. Joll (the manager of the “Dolphin Hotel”) married Mrs. Ellen Shaddon (presumably née Langmead). She was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. Henry Pinsent. His two daughters, Ellen and Mary, were bridesmaids. After the ceremony, sixty people sat down for a, doubtless very impressive, wedding breakfast at the “Dolphin Hotel” (Totnes Weekly Times: Saturday 25th May 1889). Ellen Anne (Nellie) Pinsent married George Tapper of “Twinyeo Farm” in Chudleigh Knighton, in Hennock, in April 1890 (Western Times: Friday 11th April 1890).
When the Mayor of Bovey Tracey, Mr. Thomas Crocker, entertained the borough freeholds to a dinner at the said same “Dolphin Hotel” in May 1887, it fell to Henry to respond to the customary toast to “The Army, Navy and Auxiliary Forces.” Evidently, he did so with humour and stated that: “He had never been connected (he said) with the Army, but had been a member of the Yeomanry Cavalry for eight years, and he always felt when called up for duty, ready to fight – (cheers, and laughter). At the same time; he believed it was the ambition of the branch he had the honour of belonging to, to do their best to maintain peace and good will with all nations” (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 14th May 1887).
By 1891, Henry and his wife Mary (née Langmead) and their other two children, Henry James Pinsent, who was also described in the Census as being a “farmer”, and Mary Louise Pinsent (a.k.a. “Minnie”) were living at “Whitstone” with two farm servants, and a domestic servant. I imagine he also used day labourers on and around the farm as well.
Newspaper account of Henry James Pinsent’s gun accident. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, February 11, 1892.
Henry’s son, Henry James Pinsent was, sadly, badly injured working on the farm in February 1892. He placed a loaded gun against a hurdle while tending to a sheep and the gun discharged as he grabbed the barrel to pick it up. He badly damaged his right hand and forearm (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Thursday 11th February 1892). He was fortunate that that was all.
Henry and Mary Pinsent’s gravestone via FindAGrave.com.
The pre-Christmas market at Newton Abbot was always very competitive and the best livestock received the best prices. In December 1893, one of Henry’s heifers came in second in its category (Western Times: Thursday 7th December 1893). Henry and his son Henry James had considerable success with their sheep and cattle over the years; however, this was to be Henry’s last award. Henry died at “Whitstone Farm” in 1894, aged 49 years, and his gravestone can still be seen in the cemetery at Bovey Tracey. His widow, Mary, probated his will and his effects were, according to the Calendar of Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration, valued at £2,131 4s 9d.
Henry’s son, Henry James Pinsent took over the running of the farm. He married, Kate Hewett, a farmer’s daughter from Farnham in Surrey in 1900 and they had a son of their own born in Bovey Tracey the following year. His life is discussed elsewhere.
Whitstone Farm, Bovey Tracey.
According to Kelly’s Directory, Mary (née Langmead) lived at “Whitstone” until 1897. However, I suspect that she was there for quite sometime after that. Mary and her son Henry James Pinsent were visiting a young Langmead relative in Sussex at the time of the 1901 Census. Henry James’s wife Kate, was, meanwhile, at “Whitstone” looking after her newborn son. Mary’s younger daughter Mary Louise Pinsent was staying with an uncle, John Lamble Joll (a Hotel Proprietor) in Hennock.
I do not know very much about Mary Louise; however, there is a head-shot photograph of her on the Lambert Website (Ancestry.com). She was likely the Mary L. Pinsent who was awarded “first class excellent” certificates for freehand and model drawing at the Newton Abbot Science and Art Class in 1889 (Express and Echo: Thursday 18th July 1889). She probably had a good singing voice too. On one occasion, “Miss Pinsent (daughter of the late Mr. H. Pinsent of Whitstone) who not only has a very sweet voice but used it with much artistic skill” sang a song entitled “Mona” (East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 28th April 1894) at a social event in Teignmouth. She was not alone on stage as William Henry Pinsent (from the DEVONPORT branch of the family) – who was just starting his own career as a banjo player and musical comedian – was also performing. Similarly, she was probably the Miss Pinsent whose pretty song “Whisper and I shall hear” entranced everyone at Miss C. E. Linter’s amateur concert for the benefit of the poor in Teignmouth at Christmas in 1894 (Teignmouth Post and Gazette: Friday 14th December 1894). Miss Pinsent was a bridesmaid when Sarah Hewett of White Lake Farm, Searle, married William Herbert Langmead, of Todhurst, Warbleton, Sussex (Aldershot Military Gazette: 14th November 1896). She, herself, married John Stevens Neck, a “gentleman” from Moretonhampstead, in Totnes, in 1901.
Henry’s widow, Mary Pinsent, (née Langmead) died in in Paignton, in October, 1909 and her son-in-law, George Tapper, a retired farmer, took probate of her will. She was buried with her husband. Her effects were valued at £376.
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Appears to be the illegitimate daughter of Mary Pinsent.
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Guy Homfray Pinsent was the youngest son of Sir Robert John Pinsent, a Justice on the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, by his second wife, Emily Hetty Sabine (née Homfray). He was born into an extended family with five half-siblings: (Lucretia Maude, Louisa Catherine, Robert Hedley, Charles Augustus and Alfred Newman) two sister (Mabel Louisa Homfray and Beatrice Mary Homfray) and two brothers (Robert John Ferrier Homfray and Francis Wingfield Homfray). He was born at his mother’s family home in Bintry (Bintree), in Norfolk, in July 1889.
Bintry Rectory, 2005.
Guy spent a few years in St. John’s but would have no recollection of it. His mother – who had always enjoyed fishing and had written articles about it in the “Field Magazine” – recollected in one (published in July 1892) that “We are certainly a sporting family, from the oldest son, who can count up to twelve or fourteen deer shot within a few miles of our home, to the little toddler of three already asking for a fishing rod and a gun”. He returned to England with his family in 1893 and, as far as I know, never returned.
His fathr’s life is described elsewhere. In the 1880s, he was notably busy dealing with the fall-out from a collapsed railway construction contract, and in figuring out the rights of French and Newfoundland fishermen along the so-called “French Shore”. He maintained that the French were only entitled to catch and process cod – and they (what ever they said to the contrary) had no right to interfere with Newfoundlanders efforts to catch, process and can lobsters. He published an article entitled “French Fishery Claims in Newfoundland” (Nineteenth Century: Vol. 158, April 1890). Robert made several visits to England (he gave a talk to the “Royal Colonial Institute” entitled “Newfoundland, our Oldest Colony” in April 1885 (Colonies and India: Friday 17th April 1885)) and was a well known as an advocate for the Colony. Queen Victoria honoured him with a knighthood in 1890.
In 1893, Sir Robert and Lady Pinsent took their younger children to England and, leaving them there, then they went out to Italy to see Guy’s eldest half-sister, Lucretia Maude, who was setting up a Benedictine convent in Rome. Sadly, Sir Robert died of pneumonia soon after they returned. His death created problems for his wife, Emily, as most of the family’s assets in Newfoundland went to the children of his first marriage – most notably his eldest son Charles Augustus Maxwell Pinsent. She was left with two teenage sons (Robert (19) and Frank (18)) in Newfoundland and a grown up daughter (Mabel (20)) and two younger children, Beatrice (10) and Guy (4) with her in England. Lady Pinsent stayed on in England and took employment first as a “House Matron” at Harrow School and then as the principal “Matron” at Denstone School in Staffordshire.
Christ’s Hospital occupied the Bluecoats site from 1682 to 1985. Via Discover Hertford.
Guy and his older sister Beatrice (“Trixie”) were sent to the “Blue Coat School” in Hertford. This was a charitable foundation that was technically based at “Christ’s Hospital” in London; but had had part of its operation in Hertford since the 1700s. Some of the letters Guy’s mother, Emily, wrote to Lucretia Maude have survived. The first, dated November 1899, shows how relieved she was to have her other son, Frank (Francis Wingfield Homfray), back in England and how she regretted not being able to afford to give Beatrice the medical training she wanted. As for Guy, she said: “Little Guy is very happy & I feel now as if he had a father again in Frank.” In October 1900, she went on to say “Guy will soon be leaving Hertford. In the London School he was fortunate in the holidays to make friends with the London Head Master, Dr. Lee.” Guy was still living in Hertford (where the younger boys were taught) when the census was taken in 1901. He must have moved up to the main school, in London, sometime after that.
Lady Pinsent was concerned about what to do with Guy after he left school – particularly as, as she was to point out to Lucretia Maude in December 1901, she thought that “Guy is a dear little fellow & very good but not I am afraid, clever. I don’t think that matters so much as steadiness & the power of work”. To be fair, it would have been hard to follow Sir Robert.
Banco Británico de la América del Sud, via Wikipedia.
Contacts were important: it seems likely that Lady Pinsent persuaded Adolphus Ross Pinsent, who was from the DEVONPORT branch of the family, to take him on as a clerk in the “British Bank of South America Limited” in Buenos Aires. He was a Director of the Company (see elsewhere: DEVONPORT). Guy went out to South America in around 1910 – perhaps at around the time that his mother and brother Frank moved down to Plymouth. A wartime item in The Times (20th April 1917) describes the contribution to the war effort made by the Buenos Aires-based staff of the “British Bank of South America Limited.” It, inevitably, lists fatalities but then goes on to mention the Military Cross awarded to Guy Homfray Pinsent. He seems to have worked there and returned to England to enlist in late 1914. He received his commission as a temporary Lieutenant in October. (Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore): Saturday 14th November 1914).
On reaching Britain, Guy joined the “Royal Field Artillery” as a Temporary Second Lieutenant. He was deployed to France in July 1915 and served with his unit during the battle of the Somme in 1916. He was awarded a “Military Cross” for gallantry under fire. The London Gazette (20th October 1916) describes the incident: “2nd Lt. Guy Homfray Pinsent, R.F.A., 33 spec. Res: For conspicuous gallantry: When the order was given for the detachments to be withdrawn owing to heavy shell fire, it was found that one detachment had been buried in the gun-pits. 2nd Lts. Coulesley and Pinsent at once collected a party, and, after half an hour’s working under very heavy fire, they got the men out.”
Lt. Guy Pinsent as photographed in The Zodiac.
The “ Zodiac” describes the incident in more detail: Guy H. Pinsent, R.F.A. “received his commission 10th October, 1914 and was promoted Lieutenant 9th June, 1915. He was wounded at Montanbar on 8th August 1916.” Evidently, he served for fourteen months at the front and was awarded a Military Cross for bravery in rescuing men when under heavy shell-fire: “Owing to the illness of his senior officers, he took a battery into action and held his position for over a fortnight before the enemy discovered the whereabouts of his battery. One day an enemy aeroplane, flying very high, apparently spotted his position, and that night the battery was bombarded heavily for eight hours, and one of the four guns was damaged. At the commencement of this severe “straffing” a shell destroyed the earthworks and six men were buried. Lieut. Pinsent called for volunteers, and they set to work to dig out the unfortunate men. In spite of their exertions, some of the men perished. It was during this “digging out” that Lieut. Pinsent was wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder. With great fortitude he held on at his post, and after the bombardment had ceased he kept the battery in action for four hours, no doubt much to the surprise of the Huns, who probably thought the battery was no longer in existence!” Guy was patched up in France and then sent to Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital at Millbank. Oddly, the hospital records show that he was in for a gunshot wound in the hand or shoulder and not for shrapnel (British Armed Forces: Soldiers’ Medical Records: Findmypast).
Guy’s map of the trenches at Martinpuich from 1916.
The “Montanbar” referred to was probably “Montauban” which was in the thick of the fighting in the Pas de Calais (north east of Amiens) during the then raging Battle of the Somme. Despite the horrors of the 1st of July (which practically wiped out the “Newfoundland Regiment” (among others) a few miles northwest, the allies had made some progress and managed to advance slightly beyond Montauban by 14th July. They reached Bazentin by 15th September. For some reason, Guy kept a trench map for Martinpuich (a few miles to the north of Montauban).
After the war, Guy Homfray returned to Buenos Aires as part of a contingent of repatriated Officers and their families. They arrived on the Royal Mail Steam Packet, “Meteor,” in August 1919. Guy’s sister, Beatrice went with him and for some reason stayed on. Guy presumably tidied up his affairs and returned to England to continue his military career.
Correspondence his mother had post-war with the War Office regarding his medals, shows that “Bimbashi” (soldier) G. H. Pinsent, M.C., had been assigned to the “Arab Maxim Battery Corp.” He joined them in 1918 and likely saw service with them through to 1920, as he relinquished his commission on 1st April 1920 (London Gazette). In addition to the Military Cross that Guy received from the King, at Buckingham Palace, he also received the normal suite of “First World War” service medals (1915 Star, British and Victory). His mother later wrote to the War Office about his eligibility for the 1914 Star and discovered that he was ineligible as he had not yet been abroad. Guy did, however, received the “Africa General Services Medal and Clasp” for his time with the “Arab Maxim Battery” (U.K. Military Campaign Medals and Awards, 1793-1949: Ancestry.com).
Guy’s map from his time in Sudan.
Guy returned to England and re-joined the army, and in May 1921 received a Commission as a Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion the “Loyal”(“North Lancashire”) Regiment. His seniority was dated back to 1st January 1917. The regimental magazine “The Lancashire Lad” tells us that he was taken on for duty in Constantinople – presumably because he spoke some Arabic. In fact, he was posted to Southern Sudan where he served as a “Government Officer”. It was a relatively short assignment. “Incoming Passenger Lists” show that Lieutenant Guy Pinsent, aged 31, returned to Plymouth from Port Said on the “Devanha” in December 1921. He re-joined his regiment and was promoted to Captain on 1st January 1923 (London Gazette). While he was in North Africa, he led a patrol into the headwaters of the White Nile River, in the East African rift valley west of Lake Rudolf (Lake Tukana). The area was then split between the British protectorates of Kenya and Uganda. He kept his map of the area and I now have it. I would have loved to have a diary.
Photo of the wedding party taken at Guy and Betty’s wedding in 1923.
Captain Guy Homfray Pinsent’s engagement to Ethel “Betty” Brittan, daughter of Charles Edward Brittan – a well-known Devonshire landscape artist – was announced in March 1922 (Western Morning News: Saturday 4th March 1922). Sadly, his mother, Lady Pinsent, died a couple of months later and she did not live to see them married at Sheepstor, on the edge of Dartmoor, in September 1923 (Western Morning News: Friday 21st September 1923). The wedding was a significant local event and it was well documented (down to and including the presents: among which was “an autographed silver salver” from the Officers of the 1st Battalion that I also have.) After the reception, Captain and Mrs. Pinsent left for London, Paris and Rome for their honeymoon (Western Morning News: Friday 21st May 1923). Presumably they met up with his half-sister, the Lady Abbess.
Officers in Tientsin in China, 1926
The couple went out to China with the “Loyal” Regiment in 1924/5. The regiment was sent to Peking (“Beijing”) to protect the British Legation during the long civil war that followed the overthrow of the Quin Dynasty in 1912. The war lasted until 1928. While the regiment was there, it acquired a number of howitzers and it fell to Guy, who had experience of gunnery, to train up volunteers so that they could actually be used – if needed. A small detachment from the Royal Artillery eventually arrived to take over (Lancashire Lad: 1925). Whilst in China, Guy and the Regiment also looked after the international settlements in Tientsin, Canton and Shanghai.
Betty Pinsent in China, 1920s.
Betty never took to China. She fell ill and her husband resigned his commission. They returned to England in December 1926 (London Gazette: 7th December 1926) and by 1931 they had settled in the Home Counties. That was the year that Captain and Mrs. Guy Pinsent gave Miss B. R. Allen and Mr. A. M. Leith a cut glass cigarette box on the occasion of their wedding in Bexhill on Sea (Bexhill On Sea Observer: Saturday 11th July 1931).
While the Pinsents were living at: “Red Lynch House” in Ascot, Betty was summoned at Windsor Petty Sessions for not reporting a minor collision she had with a van while she was driving through a congested section of Peascod Street, in Windsor. However, the Chief Constable on the stand said that the charge should have been for “damage” caused, rather than for not reporting an “accident” and, as there was conflicting evidence given in court, the magistrates dismissed the case on a payment of £1 in costs (Wokingham Times: Friday 3rd May 1935).
Guy and Betty moved around a lot. They lived at “Idle Way” in Sunningdale, near Ascot, from 1935 -1937, “The Squirrels” in Sunningdale in 1938 – 1939, “Rose D’Or” in Egham in 1940 and at “Bennebroek”, in Chobham (Surrey) from 1941 onward (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984). My father met up with his Uncle Guy in London in 1937 and in a letter home mentions that Guy was fit, and also that he had just sold “Idle Way”.
I gather (from family sources) that the reason they moved around so much was that they bought, re-decorated and sold their houses. Perhaps it helped having a connection with the Cowtan family (through Guy’s brother Frank) as “Messrs. Cowtan and Sons Ltd.” were high-class decorators, upholsterers and cabinet-makers in Belgrave Square, in London S.W.1. The Cowtan firm, which was founded in 1790, was particularly well known for its quality wallpaper (London Metropolitan Archives).
Capt. Guy Homfray Pinsent M.C., “having attained the age limit of liability to recall ceases to belong to the Res. of Off.” (London Gazette: 25th July 1939) was removed from the Army’s recall list in July 1939. Whether this was the reason, or not, I am not sure; however, “The Lord Chamberlain is (was) commanded by Their Majesties to summon Captain and Mrs. Guy Pinsent to a Court at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 13th July 1939 at 9.30 o’clock, p.m.”. Interestingly, it was not a typical garden party. Guy also attended the “47th/81st Dinner Club” annual dinner when it was held at the Naval and Military Club in Piccadilly in 1952.
Guy served with the Home Guard during the Second World War. Guy and Betty Pinsent had settled down in Chobham, in Surrey, by then and they had “Cousin Bob” (Robert Burton Pynsent) living with them long enough in 1945 for him to be added to the electoral roll. Bob had returned from New Zealand and settled in London at the same time as Guy’s mother (Lady Pinsent) and his elder brother (Frank) had done so in the early 1900s. He was a distant relation but a fellow colonial. Bob had left Chobham by 1946.
The 1939 Register compiled at the beginning of the Second World War tells us that Guy was a “Wholesale Manager for Wine and Spirit Merchants” – and that he was “awaiting orders from Sudan Government Administration Authority” which, presumably never came. I am not aware that he went back to Sudan. However, he took Betty on a trip to Casablanca and Morocco in August 1953 (Passenger lists: Findmypast) so he may still have had a hankering for the North Africa. They had gone out to Madeira a couple of years earlier.
Advertisement for Henekey’s Ltd, wine merchants, taken from a newspaper. Via Hastings Pub History.
After the war, Guy became a director of “Henekey’s Limited” (The Times: 16th August 1945). The company was a wine and spirits importer and liquor distributor owned by Clement Callingham. Among other things, it ran a series of up-market public houses such as “French’s” in Hastings. I imagine Guy kept a good cellar. The product prices have probably gone up a little …
Guy played an important role in the development of this database. In late 1957 or early 1958, he received a letter from Joey Smallwood, the man who ushered Newfoundland into confederation with Canada, asking about Sir Robert John Pinsent – he was looking for information that he could include in what would become his seven-volume “Dictionary of Newfoundland”.
Guy as an older man.
Guy recruited my father and they went through the documents they had in their possession and sent Mr. Smallwood those that they thought were relevant. The correspondence led my father, Dr. Robert John Francis Homfray Pinsent, to think that the time was right to start on a major review of our family’s history. Sadly, he was a generation too early. However, the job is (for now) just about done. There are children around. It will have to be undated.
Guy stayed on in Chobham and died at “Bennebroek”, in November 1972. Betty remained there for a while but eventually moved into a nursing home close to her husband’s family in Devon. She died there in 1986. They had had no children.
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Gilbert S. Pinsent is listed with his parents in the 1901 census.
Gilbert Soudon was the only son of Gilbert Pinsent by his wife Clara (née Bridgman). The couple farmed at “Ware Barton” in Kingsteignton in the 1870s and had two daughters there. They then moved to “Scrope” Farm, near Hungerford in Berkshire, and it was there that their son Gilbert was born. Gilbert and Clara went to live in Newbury while he was still a young boy, so Gilbert Soudon was the first of his line to miss out on farm life. The census records show that the family lived at “Knapps House,” in Bloxford, in 1901. Boxford is four miles northwest of Newbury. It also tells us that Gilbert Soudon was “a farmer’s son,” which was true enough.
Gilbert Soudon Pinsent attended the“British School” in Newbury and was, by all accounts, a diligent student. He was listed among those boys who only missed two days of school in 1899. He missed one more the following year and was allowed to choose from a selection of prizes (Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser: Thursday 18th May 1899 and Thursday 31st May 1900). Gilbert also did well in the locally held Trinity College Certificate examinations held in 1901 (Marlborough Times: 12th October 1901).
He was good at music and, in 1901, received a prize for his pianoforte playing: “The highest marks were gained by two candidates in the preparatory division, Theodora Reeve-Smith, aged 6, and Gilbert S. Pinsent, aged 12, tying with 88 marks each; the prize had consequently to be divided between them in accordance with the roles in the local prize regulations” (Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser: Thursday 10th October 19o1).
Buenos Aires at night circa 1910.
Gilbert Soudon was away from home when the census takers called in 1911 and I cannot find him in the United Kingdom – quite possibly because he had gone out to Argentina. Gilbert Soudon was one of several Pinsents living in Buenos Aires before the First World War. He seems to have worked in a bank there. Whether they were aware of each other, I do not know but they may have.
One of the other Pinsents was also working in the banking sector. An item in The Times (20th April 1917) describes the contribution to the war effort made by the Buenos Aires-based staff of the “British Bank of South America Limited.” It lists fatalities but also goes on to mention the Military Cross awarded to Guy Homfray Pinsent. He returned to England to enlist in 1914. Gilbert and Guy are both from the HENNOCK branch of the family. Adolphus Ross Pinsent – who comes from the DEVONPORT branch of the family – was a Director of the “British Bank” and he had a son, Sidney Hume Pinsent who was an engineer living in Buenos Aires.
Gilbert and his family appear in the passenger list of the S.S. Highland Monarch.
Gibert Soudon Pinsent married Agnes Mabel Broome, the daughter of a British engineer in Buenos Aires in November 1914 and they had a son, John Soudon Pinsent, in Argentina, in 1916. However, they returned to England for the birth of their second child, a daughter Mabel Sheila Pinsent in September 1920. Ship’s manifests show that they returned to Buenos Aires on “S.S. Halizones”, which left Liverpool on 23rd December. They traveled first class.
The S. S. Highland Monarch.
The family also returned to England on the “S.S. Highland Monarch” in June 1931. Gilbert and Agnes had their two children – John Soudon (aged 14) and Mabel Sheila (aged 10) with, and they probably intended to drop John off at school in England, as they returned to Buenos Aires on the same ship without him that.
Mabel Sheila Pinsent de Luck’s immigration card from the Consulado Geral do Brasil.
Gilbert Soudon and his wife presumably died in Argentina; however, I have yet to find when or where. Mabel Sheila probably married out there too. She was certainly there in the 1950s, as “Mabel Sheila Pinsent de Luck” applied to the Brazilian Consulate in Buenos Aires for an immigration card and received in in August 1954.
A Lockheed Hudson from the No. 233 Squadron of the RAF via Wikimedia.
John Soudon Pinsent was educated at “St. George’s College”, which is a private Anglican college at Quilmes in Argentina. He was one of several British Argentinians who signed on to fight for the allies during the Second World War. He returned to England and joined the Royal Air Force. He was assigned to “#233 Squadron”, which flew Lockheed Hudson light bombers out of Gibraltar. Sadly, his plane (AM634) was shot down over the Mediterranean in December 1941.
Exactly what happened to Flight Sergeant John Soudon Pinsent and his (three) crew-mates is unclear. Documents in the National Archives state that they were presumed to be shot down when they failed to return from a flight on 11th December 1941. The Argentine British Community Council Memorial website states that the plane went missing in action while attacking a German U-boat and the “Commonwealth War Graves Debt of Honour” site says that it was “shot down in error by a FAA Fulmar during a transit flight from Gibraltar to Malta”. Suffice it to say, he died in defense of Malta and his name appears on a plaque on the Valletta, Malta RAF Memorial. He never married.
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Gilbert Pinsent was the third eldest son of Thomas Pinsent of “Pitt Farm” in Hennock by his wife, Mary (nee Gale). He was baptized in Hennock on 6th January 1724 and buried “aged 70 years” in Wolborough Parish (Newton Abbot) in 1794. His birth record is difficult to read on microfilm (Film #0917142), and some sources suggest that it was a “Robert” Pinsent who was baptized that year. However, that must be a transcription error – as the baptismal date is consistent with Gilbert’s age of death. My grandfather (Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent) seems to have read the baptism as “Gilbert” when he saw the original record and I concur.
Gilbert Pinsent married Rebecca Collins in Wolborough in 1746 and had a large family that included at least six girls. Sadly, two of them, Urith and Julian, died of smallpox on the same day, in 1757. Anne and Rebecca are unaccounted for but the eldest, Mary, and youngest, Elizabeth, are known to have married. Mary may have had two illegitimate children (born in 1769 and 1771 respectively) before her marriage to Andrew Narramore in 1772. They may have been Mr. Narramore’s children. Elizabeth married William Blackhall in 1780.
Gilbert’s first son, another Gilbert, died an infant and his second, Robert, was not mentioned in his uncle Thomas “the younger” of “Pitt’s” will and he may have died by 1791. All of Thomas’s other then (known to be) living nephews were mentioned by name.
A woolcomber from The Book of English Trades and Library of Useful Arts by J. Souter, 1818.
Gilbert, as a third son, had few expectations with regard to inheritance and he started out as a “woolcomber.” This may have seemed like a good idea at the time as the “East India Company” bought and exported cloth from Devon in the 1700s and it was a thriving, if modest, cottage industry. Sadly, it turned out to be a poor choice as the industrial revolution was starting to take hold in the North of England – and the process of woolcombing was becoming increasingly mechanized. The cloth industry in the Southwest of England was into its terminal decline and it was all but over by the 1830s. He took to gardening in the 1760’s.
London Gazette, November 3, 1761.
Gilbert’s family clearly became somewhat irritated by his endless financial problems. The London Gazette for 3rd November, 1761 (Issue 10154) shows that “whereas Gilbert Pinsent, late of Newton Abbott, in the County of Devon, Gardener, is now a Prisoner in the Sheriff’s Ward or Prison at the Parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, in and for the County of Devon, and charged in Execution therein at my Suit; I do hereby give Notice, that I intend, at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held in and for the said County of Devon, or any Adjournment thereof, which shall happen next after Twenty Days from the Publication hereof, to Compel the said Gilbert Pinsent to deliver into Court and subscribe upon Oath a Schedule of all his Estate and effects, for the Benefit of his Creditors, pursuant to the Directions of an Act of Parliament passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, King George the Third, entitled, An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Witness my Hand the 4th Day of November 1761: Signed Thomas Pinsent, jun”. Presumably, this was his brother Thomas, who was later to be the second owner of “Pitt Farm”.
Gilbert and Sarah marry on May 10, 1791.
Gilbert continued to have financial problems all his life. His wife, Rebecca, died in the “Workhouse” in Wolborough, in 1788. Gilbert married Sarah Lea in 1791, but died a few years later.
Had he lived, Gilbert was to have received an annuity when his brother Thomas died; however, he died first. The Sarah Pinsent “aged 71 years” who died in Wolborough in 1811 was probably his widow. In the absence of known surviving sons, Gilbert seem unlikely to have left Pinsent descendants.
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