Western Gazette: Friday 27th February 1925

The late Mr. W. R. Mitchell: Funeral at Seaborough … (description) … the family mourners were … (includes) … Mrs. Crossley, Burton Pynsent (sister-in-law); …


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Western Gazette: Friday 5th August 1921

Curry Rivel: The Annual Sports and Flower Show: will be held in Burton Pynsent Grounds, on Wednesday 17th, August 1921: … (comprehensive list of events) …

[see similar Western Gazette: Friday 12th August 1921]


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Western Gazette: Friday 9th July 1920

The Curry Rivel Sports and Flower Show will be held in the Burton Pynsent Grounds, by kind permission of Mrs. Crossley and Mr. T. J. Lock, On Monday, August 2nd, 1920 ….

[see also Western Gazette: Friday 16th July 1920]


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Barbados Mercury and Bridge-town Gazette: Saturday 9th June 1921

The Life of the Right Hon. W. Pitt: by The Bishop of Winchester: This long expected memoir has at length been presented in part to the public: The two first volumes are published this day (April 24) … includes … several letters written by Earl of Chatham at Burton Pynsent to his son at Cambridge University in October 1773 … 

[see related: Barbados Mercury and Bridge-town Gazette: Tuesday 10th July 1921]


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Western Gazette: Friday 22nd December 1939

Girl (young, beginning service) required, as Between-maid: The Hon. Mrs. Barnes, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Somerset.

[see also Western Gazette: Friday 29th December 1939]


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Western Gazette: Friday 6th October 1939

Captain G. S. Barnes has for sale, Bay Hunter mare, 9 years, 16.2 hhs, Sound and quiet with hounds. Well-known in B.V.H: Bay Pony, 9 years, 13.1 hhs, Sound and Quiet, a good lad’s hunter; Apply Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Somerset.


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Western Daily Press: Monday 26th June 1939

This remarkable eccentric [Lady Hester Stanhope] was born in Kent in 1776 and live with her grandmother, Lady Chatham, at Burton Pynsent, in Somerset from 1800 to 1803 …


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Western Gazette: Friday 2nd June 1939

Whitsun Holiday in Yeovil Area: Visits to Somerset and Dorset Quarries: The Geologists’ Association held their Whitsuntide field meeting in the Yeovil area and made the Manor Hotel at Yeovil their headquarters for the four days. … …thence to Somerton, and the red kenper marl below Curry Rivel, and a wonderful general impression of Sedge Moor below Burton Pynsent – and after tea at Langport, and a visit to Muchelney Abbey, the members returned to Yeovil some shades browner for their four days of sunshine on the Dorset-Somerset border.


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Western Gazette: Friday 31st March 1939

Rare Pictures: A Somerset Sale: L.925 For Fra. Angelico’s “The Annunciation”: Pictures believed to have been formerly in the well-known Albertini and Peto collections were included in the sale of the contents of Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Somerset, which was conducted last week by Messrs. Woolley & Wallis, in association with Messrs. Rawlence & Squarey, the agents for the estate, under instructions from the executors of the late Mrs. S. M. Crossley. Mrs. Crossley was a sister of the late Mr. H. A. Peto, the well-known collector …  (list of paintings and furniture sold – no sign of Sir William Pynsent’s portrait – RHP)


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