Tag: Cheltenham Looker-On

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 26th January 1878

The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos: The publication of which is always looked forward to by members of the University and the learned world in general with great interest, was issued yesterday morning, when the customary excited scenes were enacted in and around, the Senate House; the floor of which was taken possession of by the Undergraduates as soon as the doors were opened. The usual formalities having been done through, the Lists of Wrangles read over, copies thereof were thrown from the galleries to be scrambled for by the excited occupants of the hall below. Who soon after dispersed themselves to congratulate those fellow Collegians whose names were included therein. Of these there were eighty-nine in number; the following being the first twelve:  Hobson, Christ’s, Derby; Steggall, Trinity, London; Graham, Caius, Dublin; Edwards, Sidney, Seaham and Pensent, St. John’s, Edgbaston, (equal); Macaulay, King’s Hodnet … (continues)

[see similar in Cornish & Devon Post: Saturday 2nd February 1878 and other newspapers]

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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 26th January 1878 

The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos: The publication of which is always looked forward to by members of the University and the learned world in general with great interest, was issued yesterday morning, when the customary excited scenes were enacted in and around, the Senate House; the floor of which was taken possession of by the Undergraduates as soon as the doors were opened. The usual formalities having been done through, the Lists of Wrangles read over, copies thereof were thrown from the galleries to be scrambled for by the excited occupants of the hall below. Who soon after dispersed themselves to congratulate those fellow Collegians whose names were included therein. Of these there were eighty-nine in number; the following being the first twelve:  Hobson, Christ’s, Derby; Steggall, Trinity, London; Graham, Caius, Dublin; Edwards, Sidney, Seaham and Pensent, St. John’s, Edgbaston, (equal); Macaulay, King’s Hodnet … (continues)

[see similar in Cornish & Devon Post: Saturday 2nd February 1878 and other newspapers]

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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 3rd February 1912

Cotswold Hunt Ball: Another Notable Success: … (description, menu and list of guests, include) … Mr. Roy Pinsent …

[see also Cheltenham Chronicle: Saturday 3rd February 1912]
[see also Cheltenham Examiner: Thursday 8th February 1912]

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 13th March 1920

The Race Ball: The revival of the Race Ball was a brilliant success and with a uniform charge for tickets of two guineas it will be imagined that nothing was lacking to make the event perhaps the most conspicuous success of the season. … … We have endeavoured to compile in the most satisfactory form a complete list of the company, but efforts to secure complete accuracy and to ensure that there shall be no omissions, have been frustrated in a few cases by the omission of names of the visitors from the cards and by the difficulty in some instances of deciphering the names as written … (list includes) … Messieurs: … Pinsent, Roy …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 31st August 1912

The Rev. R. Newman and Miss Isabel Ashton married at St. George’s Camberwell, August 24th, 1912: A marriage in which Cheltenham residents were greatly interested was solemnised at St. George’s Camberwell, on Saturday last, when the Rev. Rowland Allen Webbe Newman, of Hawkridge Rectory, Dulverton, led to the altar Miss Fanny Isabel Ashton, daughter of the late Col. William Ashton, R.A.M.C., of Marlborough Lawn, Cheltenham, and of Mrs. Ashton of 4 Oxford Buildings, Cheltenham …  (description of wedding) … Many useful presents were received, a list of which is appended: … …  Lady and Miss Pincent, set of hand-made insertion chamber towels …

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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922
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Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 18th September 1909

Weddings: Mr. E. C. Willoughby and Miss D. H. Ryland: [photographs of both] Charlton Kings Parish Church was the scene of a pretty and fashionable wedding on Thursday afternoon when Miss Dorothy Helen Ryland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney P. Ryland of 31, Promenade, Cheltenham, was married to Mr. Edwin Charles Willoughby, son of the late Capt. Charles Willoughby (60th King’s Royal Rifles), and of Mrs. Willoughby, of Courtfield, Charlton Kings. The bridegroom will be remembered for the prominent part he used to take in the amateur theatricals arranged for Mr. Redford’s benefit. …. The service was fully choral. The officiating clergymen were the Rev. A. H. Willoughby (uncle of the bridegroom), the Rev. Cannon W. Flory (uncle of the bride) and the Rev. E. Neale (Vicar of Charlton Kings) … (detailed description of ceremony) … The following is a list of the present: … (from numerous Willoughby, Reynolds-Reynolds, Rawlins and Ryland relations and also from) … Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent, cauldron china dinner service …  Mr. and Mrs. Burton Pynsent, old Dutch silver … 

[see also Cheltenham Examiner: Thursday 16th September 1909]

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GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931
GRO0618 Hennock: Margaret Jane Pynsent: 1844 – 1920
GRO0617 Hennock: Mary Isobel Addie: 1879 – 1956
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953

 

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 6th June 1908

Cheltenham Eye, Ear and Throat Fee Hospital: Report for week ending May 31st, 1908. Attendances, 177; new cases, 45; operations, 11; accidents, 6; hospital, 7; admitted during week, 8: The Committee gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the following for the use of the patients: Illustrated papers from Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son, Promenade; magazines from Miss Ashley, Arundel House; inhaler and medicine bottles from Mrs. Pitt Pynsent, Douro Lodge; vegetables from a grateful patient.

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GRO0364 Hennock: Georgina Helen Ball: 1833 – 1916 (?)

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 22nd February 1908

Visitors’ List: … Queen’s Hotel: Promenade: Pensent, Mr. and Mrs. … (continues) … 

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Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 8th February 1908

Queen’s Hotel: Promenade: …. (visitors include) … Pynsent, Mr. and Mrs. … Rawlins, Mr. …

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GRO0617 Hennock: Mary Isobel Addie: 1879 – 1956 (?)
GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953

Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 7th July 1906

The Ladies College Guild: the Guild of the Ladies’ College is again holding its Biennial meeting in Cheltenham, and great numbers of “old girls” have assembled from afar and near to once more greet their Lady Principal and in innumerable ways to revive happy memories of the years spent within the college walls … The living interest taken in the guild cannot be better shown than by perusing the following list of members who are taking part in the present meeting … (list includes) … Mrs. Willoughby (L. Pynsent) … Lillian Willoughby ….

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GRO0618 Hennock: Margaret Jane Pynsent: 1844 – 1920