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Carlow Nationalist: Saturday 23rd May 1891

Forgotten Chapters of Local History (Protestant Church: Continues) … very long discussion I shall conclude this chapter by quoting from “Carlow Vestries” the list of the various rectors and curates of the parish, with date of appointment, as far back as 1669, when we find the Rev. Richard Jones “minister;” 1680, Rev. Thomas Weston, rector; 1868, Rev. Joseph Pinsent, Rector; Jeremy Rydalle, curate, 1694; Rev. John Francis, rector; 1696, Rev. Robert Harris, rector and vicar; … (continues) …  Michael Brophy: ****

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Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser: Wednesday 3rd December 1919

74: Church Bells and the Fifth: It was a very common custom to ring the bells on November 5th in memory of the failure of the gunpowder plot. Payment to the ringers for ringing on November 5th will be found in many books of churchwardens’ accounts. In the Curry Rivel accounts, under the date 1727/1728, there is an order signed by Sir William Pynsent that no money be given to the ringers upon any holiday, chargeable to the public but on the 5th day of November, and then not exceeding 5s. ….

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Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser: Wednesday 24th September 1919

Notes: … Burton Pynsent: In an article in “Legacies to Public Men”, a contemporary, after referring to Mr. Carnegie’s bequests of annuities to Mr. Lloyd George and others, writes …. (giving reference to Lord Chatham’s receipt of the Burton Pynsent estate from Sir William Pynsent) …

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Newcastle Chronicle: Tuesday 11th March 1919

Bequest to Mr. Lloyd George: The Prime Minister was yesterday a defendant in a probate action connected with the estate of a civil engineer who had bequeathed to Mr. Lloyd George certain patent rights. As, however, the bequest was made in March 1918, at a time when the testator was, according to the evidence, “of unsound mind and suffering from delusions,” there was no defense to the suit, and probate for a previous will was granted. Lord Coleridge very properly commended Mr. Lloyd George’s action in sparing the dead man’s estate, the expense of what might have been a protracted and costly litigation. Other Prime Ministers have been more fortunate in regard to the legacies left to them by admirers. William Pitt, the elder, is a famous cause in point. As a younger son of a country gentleman, he was not too well endowed with worldly goods, and the first person to make amends, for rare patriotism and powers of oratory, unsupported by an abundance of cash, was the celebrated Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, who bequeathed to him £10,000. William Pitt, however, also benefited at a later period by another admirer, Sir William Pynsent, who left him his whole property amounting to about £3,000 a year.  …

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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Saturday 16th January 1915

From the Bath Chronicle 150 Years Ago: Thursday night last, at Burton, near Somerton, Sir William Pynsent, Bart. He has bequeathed the sum of fifty thousand pounds to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Esq., Member of Parliament for this City, in consideration of the many patriotic services performed by that gentleman to his country.

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Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser: Friday 25th October 1912

Political Windfalls: The bequest by Scottish lady of a small fortune to the brothers Redmond and Mr. Keir Hardie is by no means unprecedented, says the “Observer.” More than one young politician at the outset his career has had his way made easier by a legacy of this kind. It was such windfall, probably, that gave us William Pitt the Elder. With a very exiguous income he seemed to have attracted little of Fortune’s favour, and might have turned from politics but for the receipt under the will of that old termagant Sarah Duchess of Marlborough of £10,000 “for the noble defence be made for the support of the laws of England.” The windfall was lucky, but one would ever have suspected “Sarah Duchess” of an attachment to the laws of England or any other laws. Another public man who benefited under her will was Lord Chesterfield, who owed his good luck to the fact that he had been among the foremost of Walpole’s assailants, and Walpole was not the least of that virago’s antipathies. But fortune had not yet done with Pitt at a later stage in his career there died an old Somerset Whig, Sir William Pynsent. He had been a member of Parliament in the days of the Whig ascendency and was driven out when the Tories came back towards the end of Queen Anne’s reign. He retired into private life and for 50 years brooded over the events of his youth. Then he began to take interest Pitt’s career, though the two never met and never corresponded. When Pitt fell from power Pynsent thought he recognised an analogy to the fall of Marlborough, and compared the rise of Bute with the rise of Harley. From that tithe he decided to leave his property to Pitt, and Pitt found himself at Pynsent’s death master of some £3,000. Macaulay owed much of the leisure which enabled him to write his “History” undisturbed a quite unexpected legacy of £10,000 from an uncle who had spent all his life in India. … …

[see similar Aberdeen Journal: Wednesday 28th January 1914]

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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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South Devon Weekly Express: Friday 12th July 1912

A meeting of the Governors of Pinsent’s Grammar School was held on Friday last, when the future of the school was discussed. It was decided to ask the Board of Education to sanction the sale of the school premises and the endowments to be used in the future towards scholarships etc. for Chudleigh boys. …

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Western Morning News: Monday 30th April 1928

Literature: Ilminster Mystery: Strange Case Recalled by Bank Record: “Stuckey’s Bank,” by Philip T. Saunders, Taunton; Barnicott and Pearce, 1928. 15s: This is a careful historical record of a well-known Somerset bank founded by Samuel Stuckey, a merchant of Langport about the year 1806. In 1826 the concern was registered as a joint stock bank, and branches were established in various places. In 1909 the business was merged with Parr’s Bank. The last chapters of the book, dealing with matters that barely touch the fringe of the subject, will probably be of most interest to the ordinary reader. These include an account of the great Lord Chatham’s acquisition of Burton Pynsent under the will of the eccentric Sir William Pynsent, and a sketch of the life of Walter Bagehot, born in Langport and related through his mother to the Stuckeys. The book closes with an account of the unsolved “Ilminster Mystery”. Mr. Lidderdale, manager of the Ilminster branch of Stuckey’s Bank, suddenly disappeared in 1892, a few days before his intended wedding. Within a month a mysterious notice appeared in “The Times” to the effect that he had died on board a yacht belonging to a Miss Vining. All efforts to trace this lady or her yacht have been fruitless, and the passing years have increased the mystery rather than diminished it. C. H. University College, Exeter:

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Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Tuesday 10th April 1928

Stuckey’s Bank” by Philip T. Saunders … Mr. Saunders has devoted a chapter on Lord Chatham and William Pitt, of Somersetshire, it will be remembered that Sir William Pynsent left his estate at Burton Pynsent near Langport to Lord Chatham ….

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