a history
Torquay Directory: … 49, St. Mary Church Road … … Ash Hill Road … Firmont – Mr. and Miss Pinsent …
[see also Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 5th February 1870 & others]
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Gas and Coke Company Limited: The annual meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Thursday at the Globe Hotel and being the first since its incorporation under the Act 1862, which makes it limited, was very largely attended. By the articles of association all the directors and officers had to be re-elected. The retiring directors were Messrs. W. Badcock, J. S. Bearne, £Bearne, E. Beazley, E. C. Kent, P. S. Michelmore, J. Pinsent, W. Roberts, and J. W. Rowell, all of whom were re-elected. …
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Newton Abbot: Chamber of Agriculture: A meeting of the members of the above Chamber was held on Wednesday at the Town Hall for general business. The attendance of members, although particularly invited, was very sparse. C. J. Wade, Esq., occupied the chair, and among those present were Rev. J. M. Hawker, J. Creed, Esq., E. Ford, Esq., Messrs. ex-secretary of the Society, G. Stookes, Watson, Rendell, Pinsent, Northcote, Berry, Rowell (3), Cornish, Sowten, &c. Mr. Row (secretary; read the minutes of the last meeting when S. T. Kekewicb, Esq. read a lecture on Middle Class Education; also those of a subsequent meeting of the Council in which it was resolved that £25 should be devoted from the funds for the purpose of presenting a piece of plate to Mr. Veale, their late secretary. It was resolved that the Mark Lane Express and agricultural journals be open for perusal at the secretary’s office to any member of the Chamber. … (continues) …
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Divorce: In the Divorce Court on Thursday, the Hon. R. J. Pinsent, a Queen’s counsel, and member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland, sued for a divorce. He married the respondent, who was the daughter of a Portuguese merchant, in April 1856, and lived with her in Newfoundland until November 1867, when she came to London to place one of her children at school. The co-respondent, Charles Mesham, was formerly an officer in the army, and secretary and aide-de-camp to the governor of the colony. He was married and had a family, and he had been on friendly terms with the petitioner. There was no dispute as to the adultery, but the petition contained a claim for damages, and the only question was to the amount. Verdict for the petitioner – damages £3,000: Decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent.
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County Court: Friday: Before Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, Judge: Whiteway v. Watts, Bearne, Blake & Co.: This was an action for £20 damages, alleged to have been occasioned through the defendant’s having undermined certain lands belonging to the plaintiff: Mr. Creed appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. R. Templer for the defendants. Mr. Creed in stating the case, said Mr. Whiteway, the plaintiff was a gentleman residing at Fishwick, in the parish of Kingsteignton, and the defendants were clay merchants, carrying on business at Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton. The plaintiff was owner in fee of a piece of land called Guinea Park, which adjoined the eastern side of a garden plot. The garden plot, he remarked, was very small, and the hedge which separated the two properties, he contended, belonged to his client. He did not believe there was any ditch on either side of this fence. Had there been a ditch he believed the law would have given a presumption of ownership viz. that the hedge was the property of the person on the side where the ditch was not. In the present instance, however, the ownership of hedge would have to be decided by the acts that had been committed on it and he thought the evidence he should be able to produce, there could be no doubt whatever that his client was the owner. The defendants had sunk in this garden plot a shaft, for the purpose of raising clay, a course that was rather unusual, as sinking of pits was generally the practice. They had sunk this shaft some distance, and afterwards had branched off in another direction to that of the level. The consequences were that the surface of the defendants’ side of the hedge had sunk considerably, as well as the plaintiff’s hedge extending over a length of 42 feet, and also the plaintiff’s land, on the other side of the hedge, some places as much as three or four feet. Furthermore, a portion of the giving way of his client’s land was marked by a chasm, at least six inches in width, about 15 ft. from the hedge; nor could they tell at present how much more giving way might take place. Mr. Templer here inquired of his learned friend if he was going to ask for prospective damages. Mr. Creed said he merely asked for permanent damages, as it was quite evident the field was permanently injured. He was aware the right to the ownership of the hedge would depend, as he had stated before, in a great measure as to the acts that had been done in regard to it. He should, however, be able to call not only the plaintiff but a tenant who occupied the land previous to Mr. Whiteway and purchased the land of Mr. Pinsent, and they would conclusively prove what he had stated and further, that the tenant had made several parts of the hedge. Indeed, Mr. Whiteway had always been under the impression that was his property. He had also given orders to the tenant of the garden not to cut the hedge. He should also call another witness who would prove that he had repaired the hedge in compliance with Mr. Whiteway’s instructions. After had proved this, he thought his client’s right to the hedge could not be questioned, or at all events it would be very difficult to disprove it. It was true that during the 18- or 19-years Mr. Whiteway had been the owner of this property he had not been so diligent in keeping this fence as he should be, and consequently on one or two occasions the tenant of the garden had cropped off the surplus growth, a very natural act. …
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Mutual Life Assurance: Scottish Provident Institution: Edinburgh: 6, St. Andrew Square: (London, 18, King William Street, E.C.): In this Society alone members can assure with right to share in whole profits at moderate premiums. In other offices they may assure at rates as low, but without any prospect of additions, or they may obtain the right to profits, but only by payment of excessive rates … … Agents: Exeter, Robert T. Campion, Solicitor; Devonport, Thomas P. Horton (Pinsent and Co.) 31 Market Street.
[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 15th October 1869 & Western Times: Friday 17th September 1869]
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Torquay Directory: … … 57 Belgravia: Belgrave Road: … … The Towers, 2 – Miss Uniacke, the Misses Pinsent … …
[see also Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 11th September 1869 & others]
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Newton Abbot … Board of Guardians: The weekly meeting was held on Wednesday, the Rev. R. Wolfe presiding: Among those present were … (list includes) … G. Pinsent …
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Public Announcements: The Birmingham and Midland Counties Training Institution for Nurses: … Subscriptions and Donations … (includes) … Mrs. T. H. Ryland … Mrs. Pinsent … £0 10s 0d. as a donation.
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On the 7th inst., at Francis Road Chapel, Edgbaston, Birmingham, by the Rev. R. W. Dale, Charles William, son of G. O. Aldridge, Esq. of Christchurch, to Mary Pinsent, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Gammon, Esq., of Salford House.
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