Tag: Echo (London)

Echo (London): Friday 16th December 1892

Mr. Sidney H. Preston, writing upon a strange piece of good fortune which has befallen a Lambeth pauper named Sheridan, says that £19,000 has been paid out of the state of Mrs. Helen Blake, of which £1,000 went to Mr. Gladstone. If testators frequently leave legacies to statesmen, the world seldom hears of it. The most notable instance, perhaps, was that of Sir Thomas Pynsent (sic) a Somersetshire baronet, who left the Earl of Chatham an estate in gratitude of his opposition to a tax of cider. A tower was erected to his memory at Burton Pynsent, which overlooks Sedgmoor.

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Echo (London): Wednesday 24th May 1893

Sir James Winter has been told he will succeed the late Sir Robert Pinsent as Assistant Judge of Newfoundland. …

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Echo (London): Thursday 4th May 1893

It is thought probable that Sir James Winter will succeed to the post of Chief Justice of Newfoundland, rendered vacant by the death of Sir Robert Pinsent. Sir James is now 48 years of age, and he was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1867 … (continues) …

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Echo (London): Tuesday 2nd May 1893

The death of Sir Robert Pinsent, which occurred at his father-in-law’s rectory in Norfolk on Thursday, will be a great loss to Newfoundland. Sir Robert was hardly sixty and was one of the best authorities on the vexed fisheries question. He was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1856 and was appointed a Member of the Legislative Council three years later. Subsequently he became successively Attorney General and Solicitor General and in 1880 he became a Puisne Judge, a position which he held till his death. Sir Robert was son of the late Judge Pinsent of the Court of Labrador, was a thoroughly sound lawyer and painstaking judge who was cordially esteemed by all who knew him.

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 
GRO0748 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1798 – 1876

Echo (London): Thursday 27th April 1893

Latest News in a Nutshell: … Sir Robert J. Pinsent, Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, who is on a visit to this country, is dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs following an attack of influenza.

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Echo (London): Tuesday 5th January 1893

Sir Robert Pinsent, the able Chief Justice of Newfoundland, has just arrived in England, accompanied by Lady Pinsent. Sir Robert, who is now in his fifty-ninth year, is a Newfoundlander and a son of the late Judge Pinsent, of the Court of Labrador. He was called to the Bar in 1856, and after has been, successively, Attorney – General and Solicitor – General of Newfoundland, was appointed a Puisne Judge in 1880. He is the author of several treatises on the Fisheries question, on which he is generally allowed to be one of the best living authorities.

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 
GRO0748 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1798 – 1876

Echo (London): Monday 12th October 1891

Newfoundland Fisheries: St. John’s (Newfoundland), Oct. 11: The grand jury, in a presentment on the cases arising out of the incidents in St. George’s Bay state that in the spring of this years some of the French Officers prohibited the people of the coast from selling bait to American fishermen who were offering for it $1.25 per barrel. Boats containing bait were forcibly driven from the side of American fishing vessels and competed to sell their supplies to French vessels at forty cents per barrel. The grand jury asked the judge, Sir Robert J. Pinsent, whether the French were justified in the course they had taken. His Lordship replied that the subjects of the United States had certain treaty rights to fish on the coast, and British subjects had a right to sell bait to them. Consequently, the French were wrong in prohibiting the sale. Sir Robert also said that the French had no right under the treaties to establish lobster factories on the coast, whereas the British had a right to establish factories so long as they did not interfere with the French cod fishing. He urged a loyal submission to the modus vivendi and expressed his confidence that the government would redress the grievances of the Newfoundlanders in time.  …

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Echo (London): Tuesday 4th August 1891

France and Newfoundland: St. John’s Aug 4: The Newfoundland Government has decided to institute a thorough investigation into the losses which have been sustained by the people of St. George’s Bay during the last three years through the interference of the French warships, and to demand compensation from England. Sir Robert Pinsent, justice of the Supreme Court, has been appointed to take charge of the investigation. … 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Echo (London): Thursday 13th November 1890

Terrible Disaster at Sea: British Cruiser Wrecked: Supposed Loss of 173 Lives: Only three of the crew save: News was last night received in London to the effect that Her Majesty’s ship Serpent, a third-class cruiser, had floundered with all on board, estimated at 173 souls. … The men who were drafted from the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport were: … (list includes) … Frederick C. Pinsent, Able Seaman …

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GRO0328 Bovey Tracey: Frederick Christopher Pinsent: 1867 – 1890

Echo (London): Friday 19th April 1872

Marriages: … Pinsent, Robert J. & Homfray, Emily H.; Parish Church, Foxfield, Wilts: Rev. T. Phelps: April 16.

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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922
GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893