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Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 28th January 1909

In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Mr. Justice Parker: In the Matter of the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Corn Exchange Limited and In the Matter of the Companies (Memorandum of Association) Act 1890: Notice is hereby given that a petition was presented to his Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 4^th day of December 1908 by the above named Company to confirm a special resolution of the Company passed at an extraordinary general meeting of the said Company held on the 24^th day of September 1908 and subsequently confirmed at an extraordinary general meeting of the said Company held on the 15^th day of October 1908 to the effect following namely: … … (articles of purpose and association) … … Any person interested in the said Company whether as a debenture holder creditor or shareholder desiring to oppose the making of an order for the confirmation of the said resolution under the above Act should appear at the time of hearing by himself or his counsel for the purpose, and a copy of the said petition will be furnished to any such person requiring the same by the under-mentioned solicitors on payment of the regulated charge for the same: Dated this 8^th day of January 1909: (sd.) C. Burney, Master: Field Roscoe & Co. 36 Lincolns Inn Fields, W.C., agents for Pinsent & Co. Birmingham.

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Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 15th October 1908

City Aid Society’s Appeal: The appeal of the City Aid Society for funds to relieve the distress caused by unemployment is met with a prompt and generous response. Up to three o’clock yesterday afternoon, £1,589 10s 8d had been received. The subscriptions include £100 each from the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Sir John Holder, Bart., Mitchells and Butlers Ltd., Alderman J. H. Lloyd, Mr. Barrow Cadbury, J. P., Tangye’s Ltd., and Mr. F. D. Docker … (also included at £25) … Mr. R. A. Pinsent … …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 25th September 1908

… yesterday, Thomas Keeton, 318 Dudley Road, was summoned for embezzling 19s 6d on or about November 20^th 1907; 9s on April 24, 1908 and £1 8s on August 28^th last, the money of Messrs. John Feeney and others, newspaper proprietors, 38, New Street. Defendant was also summoned for making false entries in a workbook on May 22 and June 2, 1908, with intent to defraud. Mr. Joy (instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co.) prosecuted, and Mr. A. Ward (instructed by Mr. Harold Mayhew) defended … (long review of case) …

[See also Birmingham Daily Gazette: Tuesday 29^th September and Thursday 8^th October 1908].

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 27th June 1908

Mrs. Pinsent in moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee referred to the report shortly to be issued by the Royal Commission on the Care of feeble-minded Children. She spoke of the excellent services of the After-care Sub-committee and remarked that the magnitude of that voluntary work might be gathered when she said that there were 535 individual cases, each of which was visited three times a year. Statistics showed that very few of these were capable of remunerative work, and when they were, the amounts received were very low, the average being 6s 1d per week. The Chairman observed that the work done by the After-care Committee was extremely arduous and somewhat discouraging. They would all wait with interest for the report of the Royal Commission referred to by Mrs. Pinsent, though he did not suppose they would read the whole of it. No doubt they would be content with the eighty-three conclusions. The report was approved. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Monday 10th May 1909

James Hinks and Son Ltd.: The report of the directors of Messrs. James Hinks and Son Ltd. state that the net profits for the year amount to £4,218. This added to £3,865, the balance brought forward from last year, gives an available sum of £8,084. … … In view of the extremely bad state of trade during the year the result is regarded as being satisfactory. Mr. Ross Pinsent retires but is eligible for re-election. …

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GRO0009 Devonport: Adolphus Ross Pinsent: 1851 – 1929

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 18th March 1908

Sale of White Lead: Acton Against a Birmingham Company: At the Victoria Courts, Birmingham, yesterday, before Mr. H. Payton (in the chair) and Mr. E. J. Round, Mr. Hedley Miller, acting as secretary of the White Lead Trade Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, summoned Messrs. Docker Bros. Ltd., Icknield Port Road, Birmingham, that they did “unlawfully sell certain goods, to wit, two kegs purporting to contain white lead to which a false trade description, namely the words “ground white lead” was applied contrary to the provisions of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, Section 2.” Mr. Bartlett prosecuted, and Mr. Joy (instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent, and Co.) was for the defendants who pleaded guilty. … (description of case) …

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 29th January 1908

Charitable Bequests: £4,000 Left for the Poor of Birmingham: By the will, dated June 17, 1897, of the late Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Lime Grove, Edgbaston, widow of Alderman John Cornforth, which had been lodged for probate in which the estate is valued at £90,010 net, charitable legacies are bequeathed duty free as follows: … (list of charitable causes including hospitals, death, dumb and blind institutes and SPCA). … The gift to the General Hospital is to be deemed satisfied by any gift of any equivalent amount made to the date of the will. A fund of £4,000 is also vested in Messrs. A. H. Griffiths, T. F. Walker, and R. A. Pinsent for the benefit of the poor of Birmingham. … (continues) … We are informed that the £4,000 left for the benefit of the poor of Birmingham is to be devoted to persons in indigent circumstances residing within five miles of the Town Hall, who must be over 55 years of age. The distribution is left to the discretion of the three trustees. …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 21st November 1907

Local Failures: George Tucker of Norlands, Erdington, attended before Mr. Registrar Whitelock at the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court yesterday for his adjourned public examination in bankruptcy. … the debtor was represented by Mr. Arnold. Mr. Frank Smith (Pinsent and Co.) represented the trustees. …

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 4th October 1907

New Home for Feeble-Minded: Sandwell Hall Opened by the Lord Mayor: Duty of the Nation: Sandwell Hall, the historic old mansion situated near West Bromwich, at one time the family seat of the Earls of Dartmouth, was formally opened yesterday by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Councillor Sayer) as an institution for the training and permanent care of the mentally defective. … … continues with description of location, event, and objectives of the institute … At the meeting, which was afterwards held the Lord Mayor presided, being supported on the platform by Bishop Gore, Sir Hallewell Rogers, Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent and the Rev. H. H. Burden. … … The Lord Mayor, who declared the institution open, congratulated the committee on the fruition of their scheme, and especially alluded to the efforts of the Rev. H. N. Burden and Mrs. Pinsent. The problem of the feeble-minded had been a very serious one for the nation, and a while ago the Birmingham Education Committee attempted to solve it, but the scheme submitted to the City Council fell through. Mr. Burden and Mrs. Pinsent had accomplished a great and useful work, and on behalf of Birmingham and the Community generally he thanked them very fully for what they had done on behalf of suffering humanity. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 28th September 1907

City Voluntary Schools: Alleged Attack by Board of Education: Grievance Discussed: the Birmingham Education Committee met yesterday at the Council House for the first time since the holidays, Mr. G. H. Kenrick (chairman) presiding. … … Mrs. Pinsent in moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-Committee, referred to the new regulations issued by the Board of Education with regard to Special Schools. She hoped the new regulations were a sign that it was recognised that they had to deal with the total number of defectives in the country, and not a small percentage. It would be necessary however, for them to try by every means in their power to make the education of these defective children as economical as possible. Hitherto they had been unable to remove large numbers of defective children from the infant schools where they were a good deal of trouble both the scholars and teachers and did no good. The report was approved.