Tag: 1869

Morning Herald (London): Monday 19th July 1869

Court of Probate and Divorce: July 15, 16 and 17 (Before Lord Penzance and Special Juries) …  PINSENT V. PINSENT AND MESHAM: This was the husband’s petition for a divorce on the ground of his wife’s adultery with the co-respondent. He also sought damages against the latter. The respondent did not answer nor appear, but the co-respondent answered, and traversed the adultery. Dr. Spinks Q.C., and Dr. Swabey was counsel for the petitioner, and Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Middleton appeared for the co-respondent. The petitioner is a barrister and Queen’s counsel, practising in the Supreme Courts of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of that island. He was married to the respondent at Newfoundland on the 28th of April 1856, and there are eight children the issue of the marriage. They were stated to have lived in great comfort and happiness up to December 1867, when the respondent left for England with two of the children to have them placed in school. The co-respondent was an officer in the Newfoundland army. He was also aide de camp and private secretary to the governor, and on intimate terms with the petitioner and his wife. He left St. John’s on a visit of inspection with the governor in October 1867, and was absent when the respondent left for England in the December following. On the respondent’s arrival in England, she went into lodging in a house in Tavistock Street, Bedford Square. The day after her arrival a gentleman called at the house who turned out to be the co-respondent and took a bedroom in the same house. Two days after the respondent left with him and was away a day or two. She, however, returned and took the children to Bristol, where she placed them at school On the 1st of February following the respondent and co-respondent were found sleeping in the same bedroom at the Royal Hotel Weymouth, where they remained to the 3rd. The afterwards went into lodging at Weymouth, where they lived as man and wife. Soon after that they went to Southampton and ultimately to the Cape of Good Hope.  Evidence was adduced which clearly proved the adultery, after which the Jury gave a verdict for petitioner, with damages against the co-respondent to the amount of £3,000. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Weekly Dispatch: Sunday 18th July 1869

Pinsent v. Pinsent: The petitioner is Queen’s Counsel in practice in Newfoundland and is also a member of the Legislative Council of the colony. He married the respondent, who was the daughter of a merchant, in 1856, and they had several children. Some years after their marriage they made the acquaintance of the co-respondent. He was then a lieutenant in the 62nd Regiment of Foot, but retired from the service on his marriage in Newfoundland, and became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of Volunteers, and Aide-de-Camp and Secretary to the Governor of the colony. Towards the close of 1867 Mrs. Pinsent came to England. The co-respondent followed shortly afterwards, and it was subsequently discovered that during their stay in this country they cohabited as man and wife. The letters which passed between them also left little doubt that the intimacy was of long standing. Mr. Pinsent now prayed for a dissolution of the marriage, and also claimed damages against the co-respondent. Dr. Deane admitted that he could not deny the charge and addressed the jury in mitigation of damages. The jury found for the petitioner and assessed the damages at £3,000. The Court granted a decree nisi, with costs. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Liverpool Daily Post: Saturday 17th July 1869 

£3,000 DAMAGES A DIVORCE CASE: PINSENT v. PINSENT and Mesham. This case was heard on Thursday: Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for the petitioner; Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Middleton for the co-respondent. The petitioner is the Hon. R. J. Pinsent, Queen’s counsel, and member of the Legislative Council Newfoundland. He married the respondent, who was the daughter of a Portuguese merchant, in April 1856, and lived with her Newfoundland until November 1867. In that month she came to England for the purpose of placing 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 family, and he had been on friendly terms with the petitioner. He met the respondent in England, in accordance with a plan which had been pre-concerted between them, and they took lodgings at Weymouth, where they cohabited as husband and wife. There was no dispute as to the adultery, but the petition contained a claim for damages, and the only question was as to the amount Verdict for the petitioner — Damages, £3,000: Decree nisi, with costs against the co-respondent. 

[see Reynolds Newspaper, Sunday July 18th, 1869] 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Friday 16th July 1869

Curious Divorce Case: Damage: £3,000. In the Court of Probate and Divorce yesterday, in the case of Pinsent v. Pinsent and Marsham, a petition was heard in which the husband sued for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of the wife’s infidelity. The petitioner is a barrister and Queen’s counsel practising at St. John’s, Newfoundland, and also member of the Legislative Council of the island. He was married to the respondent on April 28th, 1856, and had eight children. The co-respondent was an officer in the Newfoundland Fencibles, aide-de-camp and private secretary to the governor. In December 1867, the petitioner left for England with two of his children, whom he intended to place at school there, and during his absence the foundation of the criminal intercourse was laid. There was no defence, but Dr. Deans addressed the jury in mitigation of damages which were prayed for in the petition. The learned judge, in summing up, observed that here there was no trace of any surmise that the marriage had been otherwise than happy. In fixing the amount of damages, the jury ought to consider the position of the petitioner, as well as the co-respondent’s means of payment. It also appeared that the respondent, availing herself of a letter from her husband, had obtained goods from drapers Woolwich to the extent of £250. The jury found for the petitioner, with £3,000 damages. 

[see also Western Times: Tuesday 20th July 1869] 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Morning Herald (London): Thursday 15th July 1869

Divorce Court, Westminster: At 11: Before Lord Penzance: Special Juries: Finney v. Finney, part heard: Senior v. Senior; Pinsent v. Pinsent and Mesham; Webber v. Webber. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893

Express and Echo: Friday 11th June 1869 

Newton Abbot … Board of Guardians: The weekly meeting was held on Wednesday, the Rev. R. Wolfe presiding: Among those present were … (list includes) … G. Pinsent … 

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Leicester Journal: Friday 28th May 1869

Borough Police: Friday: Before J. Baines, Esq., (Mayor), R. Harris, S. Viccars, W. Bowmar, and W. Miles, Esqs … Susanna Pincent was charged with threatening Annie Warren. The complainant, said on the 18th instant she was in a shop when defendants came in and threatened to screw her double: Defendants denied threatening complainant and said the threats were on the other side because she asked her for a shilling: Case dismissed. 

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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette: Saturday 8th May 1869

Public Announcements: The Birmingham and Midland Counties Training Institution for Nurses: … Subscriptions and Donations … (includes) … Mrs. T. H. Ryland … Mrs. Pinsent … £0 10s 0d. as a donation. 

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Stroud Journal: Saturday 24th April 1869 

Deaths: Philp: April 28, at Stoke Devon, Thomas Philp, many years woollen buyer to Messrs. Pinsent and Co., Devonport, aged 68. 

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GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864

Salisbury and Winchester Journal: Saturday 17th April 1869

On the 7th inst., at Francis Road Chapel, Edgbaston, Birmingham, by the Rev. R. W. Dale, Charles William, son of G. O. Aldridge, Esq. of Christchurch, to Mary Pinsent, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Gammon, Esq., of Salford House. 

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