Tag: Birmingham Daily Mail

Birmingham Daily Mail: Friday 4th September 1914

The Training Ground: Intending recruits will probably welcome the announcement that there is every prospect of their preliminary training being carried out in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. The military authorities have inspected Sutton Park, and, although not definite decision has yet been arrived at, it is understood the Mayor of Sutton Coldfield, and his colleagues will readily give all facilities. … The Deputy Mayor gratefully acknowledges the following additional donations to the equipment fund. … … (includes) … … R. A. Pinsent – £50. …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Mail: Wednesday 25th February 1914

Birmingham Law Society: Memorials to the Late Mr. G. J. Johnson: Tablet Unveiled at the Library: The annual meeting of the Birmingham Law Society was held this afternoon at the Law Library, Wellington Passage: Mr. A. H. Coley (president) occupied the chair. Before the formal business of the meeting there were two interesting functions, – the unveiling of a memorial in the shape of a brass tablet – to the late Mr. G. J. Johnson, and the investing of the president with a chain of office to be known as the “the G. J. Johnson Memorial Chain.” Mr. R. A. Pinsent, who invested the president with the beautiful chain of office, said that to those who knew Mr. Johnson as “G. J.” and to those who only knew him as Mr. Johnson, no memorial was, of course, wanted. His high sense of honour, his marked ability, his fairness, and his kindness would never be forgotten, but another generation would arise to whom he could only be a name, and the wish of those present was that a future generation would be able to say he was a man of whom his contemporaries thought so highly that they commemorated his qualities in that manner …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Mail: Friday 13th February 1914

Birmingham Corporation Bill: Opposition from Numerous Quarters: Yesterday there were deposited at the Private Bill offices petitions asking to be heard against the Birmingham Corporation Bill by the Midland Railway Company, Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, owners, lessees and occupiers in Broad Street, Easy Row, and Suffolk Surest, London and North-Western Railway Company, Great Western Railway Company, Birmingham District Traders and Property Association, Birmingham Canal Company, Incorporated National Union Horse and Vehicle Owners, and Horton’s Estate and William Horton. The Bill is also opposed by Birmingham University and Mr. Richard Alfred Pinsent.

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948