Tag: Birmingham Gazette

Birmingham Gazette: Saturday 15th August 1914

Citizen Guard: Meeting to Form a Corps in Birmingham: Official Objection … (unsanctioned) … Committee Appointed: Sir Hallewell Rogers said Birmingham had been to the fore in many movements in the past, and it would be to the fore in this. He hoped they would establish a force which would know no section of the body. … … The following gentlemen were elected members of the Executive Committee: Alderman Bowater (president), Sir Hallewell Rogers, Colonel C. J. Hart … R. S. Hilton, G. Banister, J. Chamberlain, H. Lane, R. Pinsent, G. C. Forty, Councillor Lovsey (committeemen). … …

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Referenced

GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Birmingham Gazette: Monday 10th October 1859

FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV. JOHN ANGELL JAMES: The remains of the Rev. J. A. James was interred on Friday last in Carr’s-lane Chapel, special permission having been given by the Home Secretary for the use of a vault in front of the pulpit, although as a rule interments buildings are forbidden. The concession was applied for on the ground that Mr. James’s strongly expressed wish was that he should be buried in the Chapel where he had so long ministered. The deep respect entertained for Mr. James by the religious world, and the inhabitants of Birmingham generally, rendered his funeral in every respect a public one … (discussion of the funeral procession and service – includes lists well wishers and of mourners by coach) … 8th coach: Mr. Pinsent, Rev. Brindley, Mr. Pinsent, Dr. Kaynes: 

[See also Northampton Mercury: Saturday 15th October 1859 & detailed review in Birmingham Journal: Saturday 8th October 1859] 

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Referenced

GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864 (?)
GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872