Tag: Birmingham Weekly Mercury

Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Sunday 1st July 1928

Degree Day: Student Revels at Birmingham. Yesterday was Law Degree Day at Birmingham University, and the high-spirited students saw to it that the ceremonies were not marred by a surfeit of dignity. … (discussion) … Honorary degrees of Doctor of Law were then conferred upon the Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham; … (list includes) … Mr. R. A. Pinsent …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Sunday 6th December 1936

New Headquarters: For Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union: The foundation stone of the new headquarters of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union, which is being built on the site of the old Kyrle Hall in Sheep Street was laid yesterday by the Lord Mayor (Alderman H. Roberts). … Mrs. Barrow Cadbury presided, and a stone commemorating the old hall was laid by Mr. Roy Pinsent … (continues) … 

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Sunday 26th April 1936

All-White Wedding of Town Clerk’s Daughter: Biggest Cathedral Church Event for years: Crowd Strains Cordon: Crowds waited in the rain yesterday afternoon to see Birmingham’s biggest and prettiest wedding for years when at the Cathedral Church Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kettlewell was married to Miss Hazel Margaret Wiltshire, daughter of Mr. F. H. C. Wiltshire, the Town Clerk of Birmingham, and Mrs. Wiltshire … (description of event) … (list of those invited includes) … Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinsent …

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

Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Saturday 7th December 1912

Three-Department School: Mrs. Hume Pinsent moved a further amendment that the plans be referred back for further consideration, and that plans should be prepared making it possible for the school, when enlarged to be made into a three-department school. After Councillor George Cadbury had altered his amendment so as to advocate classes of 40 for senior schools and 48 for infants – this being the London Standard – Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s amendment was carried and Mr. Cadbury’s lost. As a substantive resolution Mrs. Pinsent’s amendment was also approved. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949


Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Saturday 14th September 1912

Marriage: Pinsent – Hildige-Johnson: On Sept. 10th at St. Peter’s Church, Southsea, Harold Charles Pinsent, Assistant Paymaster, R.N., son of the late Charles Pinsent, of Madras and Portswood, Southampton, to Constance Amy, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Hildige-Johnson, Southsea.

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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904
GRO0391 India: Harold Charles Frank Pinsent: 1884 – 1968