Tag: Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser

Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser: Thursday 18th July 1912

Links with the Past: Antiquaries Visit Places of Interest in the Devizes District: … our first stopping place was Erchfont, where the Rev. Dr. Hill had kindly consented to allow us to visit the church … From the Church we went to the Manor House, by kind permission of Mr. Dudley Scott. Mr. H. E. Medlicott delved into ancient history and informed us that the house was built by Sir William Pynsent, M.P. for Devizes, 1689-90, who, having no relations, left it, with all his property to Pitt, Earl of Chatham, for whom in his public capacity he had a most profound admiration.

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Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser: Thursday 1st February 1912

Tragic End to Romance: The tragic ending of the brief married life of a young man and an actress was unfolded at an inquest held at Rotherhithe, which cleared up the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Stephen Pinsent Toby, an electrician attached to his Majesty’s ship Illustrious, stationed at Devonport. The body of the man was found in the river at Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe, and the medical evidence was that death was caused by drowning, and that the body had probably been a month in the water. The evidence given at the inquest by his widow showed that Toby had married her in September and when he came home in December, they had a quarrel on the subject of her continuing her stage career, to which she was bound by a contract. He went away saying that no one would ever see him again. A verdict was given of ‘“Found drowned.”

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