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Torquay Directory: … 49, St. Mary Church Road … … Ash Hill Road … Firmont – Mr. and Miss Pinsent …
[see also Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 5th February 1870 & others]
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GRO0448 Teignmouth: James Pinsent: 1839 – 1905
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Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School: Annual Meeting: Yesterday the annual meeting for the distribution of medals and certificates of honour to the successful pupils was held in the School Room, Edgbaston. Mr. W. L. Sargant occupied the chair, in the absence of the president, Mr. H. W. Tyndall. … … The following is the result of written examinations held at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas, 1869. The prizes were handed to the successful competitors by the headmaster: … Class III: … General Proficiency … Certificate … Hume Pinsent …
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
Births: Pinsent – Dec. 14: at Rocombe, Coombinteignhead, the wife of Mr. John Pinsent, a daughter.
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GRO0118 Hennock: Catherine Whidborne: 1840 – 1923
GRO0492 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1838 – 1916
GRO0601 Hennock: Lucy Whidborne Pinsent: 1869 – 1948
GRO0664 Hennock: Mary Eliza Pinsent: 1869 – 1960
Births: December 14th, at Rocombe, Coombeinteignhead, the wife of Mr. John Pinsent, a daughter.
[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 24th December 1869]
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GRO0118 Hennock: Catherine Whidborne: 1840 – 1923
GRO0492 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1838 – 1916
GRO0601 Hennock: Lucy Whidborne Pinsent: 1869 – 1948
GRO0664 Hennock: Mary Eliza Pinsent: 1869 – 1960
Petty Sessions: Tuesday: Before J. Divett, Esq., (chairman,) C. J. Wade, Esq., G. B. Ellacombe, Esq., and Admiral Wise: Six boys, called John Witherton, James Kerslake, William Luscombe, Robert Lethbridge, Joseph Tonkins, and James Morris, were charged with endangering passengers by making slides in East street: Ordered to be locked up until the rising of the court: Partridge v. Thomas Pinsent: Mr. Whiteway for complainant, and Mr. Baker for defendant. Defendant was summoned for non-payment of a sewer rate, amounting to £3 15s. 4d. by the sewer authority for Kingsteignton. The case was partly heard on the 28th September last, and as it then transpired that the defendant had paid £10 for a previous rate that afterwards proved invalid, it was adjourned in order that Mr. Pinsent might bring an action in the County Court to recover the amount from the overseers. Mr. Baker said he had given this due consideration, and had arrived at the conclusion that if he took the case to the County Court, he would be met by the Judge that as the rate was not quashed the question would have to be tried as if it was a valid rate. Under these circumstances the bench now ordered payment of the rate but without costs.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
Gas and Coke Company Limited: The annual meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Thursday at the Globe Hotel and being the first since its incorporation under the Act 1862, which makes it limited, was very largely attended. By the articles of association all the directors and officers had to be re-elected. The retiring directors were Messrs. W. Badcock, J. S. Bearne, £Bearne, E. Beazley, E. C. Kent, P. S. Michelmore, J. Pinsent, W. Roberts, and J. W. Rowell, all of whom were re-elected. …
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Newton Abbot: Chamber of Agriculture: A meeting of the members of the above Chamber was held on Wednesday at the Town Hall for general business. The attendance of members, although particularly invited, was very sparse. C. J. Wade, Esq., occupied the chair, and among those present were Rev. J. M. Hawker, J. Creed, Esq., E. Ford, Esq., Messrs. ex-secretary of the Society, G. Stookes, Watson, Rendell, Pinsent, Northcote, Berry, Rowell (3), Cornish, Sowten, &c. Mr. Row (secretary; read the minutes of the last meeting when S. T. Kekewicb, Esq. read a lecture on Middle Class Education; also those of a subsequent meeting of the Council in which it was resolved that £25 should be devoted from the funds for the purpose of presenting a piece of plate to Mr. Veale, their late secretary. It was resolved that the Mark Lane Express and agricultural journals be open for perusal at the secretary’s office to any member of the Chamber. … (continues) …
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Torquay Local Board of Health: … A letter was read from Mr. J. Pinsent, of Lucius Street, asking permission to keep a certain quantity of inflammable oils on his premises. The Clerk said the Committee recommended that Mr. Pinsent’s request be granted provided he had a fireproof room for storage. Mr. Harvey moved that the recommendation of the Committee be adopted as he had no doubt it would be a great benefit to Mr. Pinsent and the cost of providing a requisite room would not be very much: Agreed to. The Chairman called attention to the numbering of the houses in the Belgrave Road, and the Surveyor was ordered to look into the matter. …
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GRO0448 Teignmouth: James Pinsent: 1839 – 1905
Divorce: In the Divorce Court on Thursday, the Hon. R. J. Pinsent, a Queen’s counsel, and member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland, sued for a divorce. He married the respondent, who was the daughter of a Portuguese merchant, in April 1856, and lived with her in Newfoundland until November 1867, when she came to London to place one of her children at school. The co-respondent, Charles Mesham, was formerly an officer in the army, and secretary and aide-de-camp to the governor of the colony. He was married and had a family, and he had been on friendly terms with the petitioner. There was no dispute as to the adultery, but the petition contained a claim for damages, and the only question was to the amount. Verdict for the petitioner – damages £3,000: Decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent.
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County Court: Friday: Before Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, Judge: Whiteway v. Watts, Bearne, Blake & Co.: This was an action for £20 damages, alleged to have been occasioned through the defendant’s having undermined certain lands belonging to the plaintiff: Mr. Creed appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. R. Templer for the defendants. Mr. Creed in stating the case, said Mr. Whiteway, the plaintiff was a gentleman residing at Fishwick, in the parish of Kingsteignton, and the defendants were clay merchants, carrying on business at Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton. The plaintiff was owner in fee of a piece of land called Guinea Park, which adjoined the eastern side of a garden plot. The garden plot, he remarked, was very small, and the hedge which separated the two properties, he contended, belonged to his client. He did not believe there was any ditch on either side of this fence. Had there been a ditch he believed the law would have given a presumption of ownership viz. that the hedge was the property of the person on the side where the ditch was not. In the present instance, however, the ownership of hedge would have to be decided by the acts that had been committed on it and he thought the evidence he should be able to produce, there could be no doubt whatever that his client was the owner. The defendants had sunk in this garden plot a shaft, for the purpose of raising clay, a course that was rather unusual, as sinking of pits was generally the practice. They had sunk this shaft some distance, and afterwards had branched off in another direction to that of the level. The consequences were that the surface of the defendants’ side of the hedge had sunk considerably, as well as the plaintiff’s hedge extending over a length of 42 feet, and also the plaintiff’s land, on the other side of the hedge, some places as much as three or four feet. Furthermore, a portion of the giving way of his client’s land was marked by a chasm, at least six inches in width, about 15 ft. from the hedge; nor could they tell at present how much more giving way might take place. Mr. Templer here inquired of his learned friend if he was going to ask for prospective damages. Mr. Creed said he merely asked for permanent damages, as it was quite evident the field was permanently injured. He was aware the right to the ownership of the hedge would depend, as he had stated before, in a great measure as to the acts that had been done in regard to it. He should, however, be able to call not only the plaintiff but a tenant who occupied the land previous to Mr. Whiteway and purchased the land of Mr. Pinsent, and they would conclusively prove what he had stated and further, that the tenant had made several parts of the hedge. Indeed, Mr. Whiteway had always been under the impression that was his property. He had also given orders to the tenant of the garden not to cut the hedge. He should also call another witness who would prove that he had repaired the hedge in compliance with Mr. Whiteway’s instructions. After had proved this, he thought his client’s right to the hedge could not be questioned, or at all events it would be very difficult to disprove it. It was true that during the 18- or 19-years Mr. Whiteway had been the owner of this property he had not been so diligent in keeping this fence as he should be, and consequently on one or two occasions the tenant of the garden had cropped off the surplus growth, a very natural act. …
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