Vital Statistics
Henry George Pinsent: 1933 – 2016 GRO0416 (Research Scientist and Lecturer in Mathematician, Greater London)
Wife (GRO1237)
Married: 1958: Deal, Kent
Children by Wife (GRO1237):
Daughter (GRO0312): xxxx – xxxx
Son (GRO0638): xxxx – xxxx
Bernard Thomas Pinsent: 1965 – 1990
Family Branch: Tiverton
PinsentID: GRO0416
Henry George was the youngest son of Sidney Henry Pinsent by his wife Louisa Elizabeth Sophia (née Kaylor). He was born in Bethnal Green and grew up both there and on Sunnyhill Road in Streatham with two brothers and two sisters. By the time the England and Wales Register was being compiled at the outset of the Second World War, in 1939, his father was a “goods checker for the Railways.”
I know very little about Henry’s early life other than that he represented South London Harriers in athletics competitions in and around London, in the mid 1950s. For instance, he won the 440 yards sprint in Portsmouth in July 1995 (Portsmouth Evening News: Monday 4th July 1955) and reached the final of the 440 yards hurdles at the South Senior Championships at an athletics meet at Motspur Park in June 1956 (South London Observer: Thursday 28th June 1956)! He received a good education and obtained a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from “London University” in 1954. He seems to have taught and lectured in Mathematics at “Chelsea College of Advanced Technology and then completed an M.Sc. degree at “Imperial College (London)” in 1963. Henry then joined “Hanley Page Limited” as an Aerodynamicist. (Directory of British Scientists: Vol. 2, M-Z: 1966-1967). Presumably, Henry conducted the type of research at the firm that was later to lead to his a doctoral degree. He became a “lecturer” at “University of London.”
Henry George married Patricia Anne Lock, a fellow mathematician, at St. Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church in Deal, in Kent, in 1958 (Kentish Express: Friday 15th August 1958). She had graduated from “London University” with a B. Sc. Degree in 1954 and then completed an M.Sc. degree. She had obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and lectured and taught mathematics at “Willenden Technical College” before – like her husband – joining “Hanley Page Limited”, as an Aerodynamicist. While there working with the company, she co-authored several technical papers with (among others) her husband.
She had three children to look after in the 1960’s, but managed to add a degree in English to her name in 1963 and upgrade it to a MA. in 1965. Not content with that, she continued to teach part-time and she added a diploma in religious studies to her curriculum vitae in 1975. Patricia was appointed a principal Lecturer in the “English Department at Roehampton University” in 1967 and she became a “Senior Fellow” at the University thirty years (or so) later (1989). She received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey in 1999 (curriculum vitae: Online).
“Hanley Page Limited” was a well-known British aircraft designer and manufacturer before, during and after the Second World War. However, in the 1960s it was unable to compete with larger firms and it went into liquidation in 1970.
Patricia (Pat.) Pinsent later concentrated on children’s education and literature and she wrote a book entitled “Childrens’ Literature and the Politics of Equality” (published by Routledge) in 1997. It was republished (by the “Roehampton Institute” and David Fulton) in 2013. She and Darja Mazi-Leskovar also made a joint contribution to “Children’s Literature” Edited by Nicolas Tredell (“Palgrave Macmillan”) in 2017. Given her early interest in theology, many of her articles delve into the impact of children’s books on their view of religion.
I know relatively little about Henry’s life; however, Dr. Henry Pinsent became a lecturer at London University. His early work was on fluid (probably read air) compression. He authored (and co-authored) several papers including one published in “The Journal of Fluid Mechanic, Volume 25 No, 3”, in 1966 and he presumably continued in the same field of research. He published a paper, (on “Kelvin Wave Attenuation along Nearly Straight Boundaries”) in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 53, in 1972. Doubtless there were many others. They would be beyond me!
Henry and Patricia lived on Burcott Road in Purley (near Croydon) in Surrey from around 1968 (British Telephone Books: 1880-1984) onward and the U.K. Electoral Registers show they were still there as late as 2005. Henry George and Patricia Anne had a daughter and two sons. Sadly, their youngest son, Bernard Thomas Pinsent died in Croydon, in Surrey, in 1990. He was twenty-four years old and unmarried. Their other children may well be alive today but their lives are not discussed here. Suffice it to say that their second son did marry and he had at least two daughters in the 1990’s.
Henry George was living in Norwich when he died in November 2016. I do not know if Patricia is still alive.
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: William John Pinsent: 1869 – 1918
Grandmother: Rose Emeline Parsons: 1872 – 1950
Parents
Father: Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979 ✔️
Mother: Louisa Elizabeth Sophia Kaylor: 1902 – 1979
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
William George James Pinsent: 1892 – 1963
Sidney Henry Pinsent: 1895 – 1979 ✔️
Henry Thomas Pinsent: 1896 – 1897
Leonard Charles Pinsent: 1898 – 1974
Rose Marguerita Pinsent: 1900 – 1918
Violet Pinsent: 1902 – xxxx
Bertram Horace Pinsent: 1904 – 1967
Ivy Lilian Pinsent: 1909 – xxxx
Marguerite Florence Ethel Pinsent: 1911 – 1911
Marguerite Winifred Pinsent: 1913 – 2006
Male Siblings (Brothers)
Philip Sidney David Pinsent: 1929 – 2015
Brother (GRO0455)
Henry George Pinsent: 1933 – 2016
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