Law Society: over £6,000 Granted in Relief: The Law Society reopened the thirty-third provincial meeting at the Birmingham Council House this morning, when, at ten o’clock, Mr. Walter Dowson, as vice-president of the Board of Directors, took the chair of the annual meeting of the Solicitors’ Benevolent Association, which this year attains its jubilee … (discussion) … The President moved the adoption of the report and in seconding Mr. R. A. Pinsent, as the local director of the association, said Birmingham was very sensible of the many advantages of having the provincial meeting held in the city. By way of marking their sense of appreciation, they had canvassed the solicitors in Birmingham, and they were able to present that day a list of fifty additional subscribers, which would go some distance towards making up the desired 500 new members. They had instituted another novelty in constituting the associate residuary legatees of the fund collected for the entertainment of the society. (laughter and hear, hear) …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948