The Mental Deficiency Act: Mrs. Hume Pinsent, of Birmingham has been appointed Unpaid Commissioner under the Mental Deficiency Act. We congratulate her and ourselves. She is one of the first authorities on the subject. Mrs. Pinsent is a City Councillor, who would have lost her seat if Mr. Asquith’s Reform Bill had gone through, as she is a married woman, and holds her seat only because Birmingham has an unusually liberal-minded Revising Barrister.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949