a history
Chalfont St. Peter: … Cottage Hospital: The Matron of the Hospital wishes to gratefully acknowledge the following gifts for February: … includes … Mrs. Pinsent, gramophone records …
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Cirencester Board of Guardians: … A report made to the Ministry of Health by Mrs. E. F. Pinsent, Inspector of the Board of Control upon her visit to the Cirencester Poor Law Institution on December 11th to inspect the mental cases was read by the chairman. In her report Mrs. Pinsent suggested the appointment of a teacher to teach the mentally deficient children and suggested that the Board should apply to the Central Association of Mental Welfare for a teacher. The House Committee who had considered the report thought that the appointment of such a teacher was unnecessary, it being pointed out that new methods of teaching the mental patients had been adopted since the visit of the Inspector. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Winchcombe Church Meeting: Appointment of a Curate: A special meeting of members of the congregation of Winchcombe St. Peter’s Parish Church was convened, and this took place in the girls’ schoolroom. The Rev. F. M. Wickham (vicar) presiding. There was a fairly large attendance. The Vicar said it was his intention to ask the Church Council to sanction the appointment of the Rev. G. R. Wehner, A.K.C., to the curacy of Winchcombe. … (discussion of church accounts for 1923 … and lack of funds) … The Vicar said that when offered the living he was told the parish would provide a curate, and this was confirmed by the resolution aforesaid soon after his coming. He would like to say that he subscribed L. 10 to the Free Will Offering Fund. During the time of the Rev. Pinsent’s indisposition the speaker paid the whole cost of the Sunday duty during his colleague’s holiday and when absent himself paid the assistant clergy’s fees (applause). He would also add that the whole cost of entertaining these fell on himself during their stay at the Vicarage from Saturday till Monday … … Concluding, the Vicar said he was quite unable to do financially what Mr. Roberts and his friends suggested (applause). …
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GRO0495 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1880 – 1925
Break-up of Estates: Mr. J. F. Bowden on Effect of Capital Levy: While a levy on capital differed some respects from the original proposal for the taxation of war wealth, it would be a direct incentive to the break-up of estates and the further impoverishment of capital employed in agriculture, said Mr. John F. Bowden in the course of a paper he read at the opening meeting of the Devon and Cornwall branch of the Surveyors’ institution at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth. Mr. F. W. H. Pinsent, Plymouth, presided. The title of Mr. Bowden’s paper was “The Rural Problem: a Retrospect and an Outlook,” in which papers written by him on the agricultural outlook in 1916, on the break-up of estates in 1917, and on the taxation of war wealth in 1920, were reviewed. … …
[see similar: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Tuesday 26th February 1924 and Friday 29th February 1924]
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GRO0322 Hennock: Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent: 1875 – 1948