Tag: 1920

Gloucestershire Echo: Thursday 28th July 1920

The Late Mrs. Margaret Willoughby: Our obituary column on Monday contained a notice of the passing at Courtfield, Charlton Kings, of Mars. Margaret Jane Willoughby, widow of Capt. C. C. Willoughby, 60th Rifles, who died some sixteen years ago … (continues) … (list of mourners contains Willoughby, Reynolds and Rawlins relations and also) … R. B. Pynsent (cousin) …  [note no Devonport Pinsents]

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GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953

Daily Mirror: Wednesday 29th December 1920

The Children’s Mirror: … … Last Week’s Prize Winners: Half-crown Prizes:  … (list)… Consolation Prizes: … (list includes) … Victor Pinsent (age 13), Walthamstow … …

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GRO0862 Devonport: Victor Charles Pinsent: 1907 – 1993

Leicester Daily Post: Thursday 14th October 1920

“Banker” at Shepshed: Nine Shepshed men, William Danvers, Baden Lester, Frank and Walter Danvers, Baden Lester (sic), William Coe, Walter Pinsent, Arthur Coulson and Sidney Brotherhood were summoned for playing “banker” at Shepshed on October 3rd. P.C. Childs spoke to being with P.C. Brooks on Sunday afternoon and seeing the defendant’s playing “banker” in a field. They bolted on the approach of the constables but were recognized. Only Lester appeared at Court, and it was stated that the defendants were not youths, the youngest being eighteen. Frank and Walter Elliott and Pinsent were fined 10s each, Lester 15s, Danvers, Corah, Coe, Coulson and Brotherhood £1 each.

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GRO0873 Tiverton: Walter Pinsent: 1897 – 1947

Westminster Gazette: Thursday 8th July 1920

Baldwins: The seventeenth annual ordinary general meeting of the members of Baldwins Limited was held yesterday, the chairman (Colonel Sir John Roper Wright, Bart.) presiding. The Chairman said:  Your board much regret the delay in presenting the accounts of the year ending June 30, 1919, which has been due to the difficulties in connection with excess profits and the pressure on our professional valuers. … (continues) … The Chairman then dwelt at some length with the offer made to shareholders by Messrs. Sperling. In reply to questions, Mr. Pinsent, the solicitor for the company, stated that neither he nor anyone else connected with negotiations from the early date in February to the end ever regarded Sperlings as other than principals … (continues) …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Evening Despatch: Wednesday 7th July 1920

Baldwins Enter Law Action: Chairman’s Statement on Messrs. Sperling: Advice to Shareholders: Shareholders in Baldwin’s Ltd., attended the annual meeting of that company at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham today in great force interest centering in the Chairman’s promise to put them in possession of the latest information concerning the actions pending regarding the contract entered into in February last by Messrs. Sperling to purchase the ordinary shares of the company at 60s per share … (discussion) … In response to the Chairman’s invitation only three shareholders asked questions, and these were of a friendly nature. Replying to these, Mr. Pinsent (Birmingham) solicitor to the company, said that the directors had never regarded Messrs. Sperling otherwise than as principals …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser: Saturday 29th May 1920

The Late Mr. H. L. V. Pryse: The Funeral: The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon of Mr. H. L. V. Pryse, who died on Thursday last week at Bath after an operation, as reported in our last issue. The service took place at Holy Trinity Church, Leamington, and was conducted by the Rev. C. T. B. McNulty, assisted by the Rev. C. E. Couchman, Thornby Rectory, Northants. … (description of service and interment) … There was a large number of floral tributes … (includes) … Mr. R. A. Pinsent, Mr. F. E. Smith; Mr. R. H. Hodgkinson; Mr. Roy Pinsent and staff of Messrs. Pinsent and Co., … 

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian: Saturday 1st May 1920

Fashionable Burgh Wedding: Rev. Charles A. W. Pain and Miss Evelyn Kendall: … (photographs and description of wedding and present list includes) … Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinsent, tea service …

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GRO0679 Devonport: Mary Tirzah Pinsent: 1897 – 1951
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 13th March 1920

The Race Ball: The revival of the Race Ball was a brilliant success and with a uniform charge for tickets of two guineas it will be imagined that nothing was lacking to make the event perhaps the most conspicuous success of the season. … … We have endeavoured to compile in the most satisfactory form a complete list of the company, but efforts to secure complete accuracy and to ensure that there shall be no omissions, have been frustrated in a few cases by the omission of names of the visitors from the cards and by the difficulty in some instances of deciphering the names as written … (list includes) … Messieurs: … Pinsent, Roy …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Gloucester Echo: Thursday 11th March 1920

National Hunt Race Ball: A Brilliant Revival: The National Hunt Race Ball before the war was, thinks largely to the enthusiasm and organizing skill of the late Captain de Pledge, one of the most brilliant of the many brilliant social events of those days, and its revival on Wednesday, the day of the National Hunt Steeplechases, was a splendid success. … … Five hundred tickets were sold, and the list of guests as compiled from the cards given up was as follows: … (list includes) … … Mr. Roy Pinsent, Mrs. Roy Pinsent … …

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GRO0679 Devonport: Mary Tirzah Pinsent: 1897 – 1951
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Leicester Daily Post: Tuesday 21st December 1920

Boy’s Home Concert: A concert was given at the Boys’ Home, Highcross-street on Sunday by Miss Marjorie Moss, assisted by Mr. James Mawby, Mr. Harold Pinsent, Master James Hurren (vocalists), Madame May Moodie (piccolo), Master Ronald Brown (piano solos), Miss Dorothy Dobney (elocutionist). A feature of the evening was the piano solos by Master Ronald Brown and the solos by Master James Hurren, both youthful artistes. Miss Moss gave musical monologues and presided at the piano.

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GRO0392 Tiverton: Harold West Pinsent:  1900 – 1962