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Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P. and Mrs. Pinsent have been appointed commissioners (unpaid) under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
The Home Secretary on Friday visited Birmingham to lay the foundation-stone of the Monyhull Colony extension. In the course of his speech Mr. McKenna announced the probability of an amending Bill to strengthen the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Act early in the coming Session of Parliament and spoke in high praise of the provision Birmingham had made for dealing with defectives. He also intimated that Mrs. Hume Pinsent had been appointed by the King honorary Commissioner on the Board of Control established under the Mental Deficiency Act.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
The Mental Deficiency Act: Mrs. Hume Pinsent, of Birmingham has been appointed Unpaid Commissioner under the Mental Deficiency Act. We congratulate her and ourselves. She is one of the first authorities on the subject. Mrs. Pinsent is a City Councillor, who would have lost her seat if Mr. Asquith’s Reform Bill had gone through, as she is a married woman, and holds her seat only because Birmingham has an unusually liberal-minded Revising Barrister.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., and Mrs. Pinsent to be Commissioners, unpaid, under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
[see similar Exeter and Plymouth Gazette; Wednesday 19th November 1913]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Mrs. Pinsent’s Appointment: The official announcement is now made that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, had appointed Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., and Mrs. Pinsent to be Commissioners (unpaid) under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913. The appointment of Mrs. Pinsent has already been noticed in the “Despatch.”
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Mr. McKenna at Monyhull: Foreshadows New Act: Aid for Rates: Mrs. Hume Pinsent Honoured: The Home Secretary (the Right Hon. Reginald /McKenna) visited Birmingham yesterday and laid the foundation-stone of an extension of the Monyhull Colony for the care of epileptic and feeble-minded persons, whereby there will be more room for adults and new accommodation for children. He made the interesting announcement that Mrs. Hume Pinsent had been appointed an honorary commissioner on the new Board of Control in connection with the Mental Deficiency Act. He anticipated that Parliament would assist the education authorities and voluntary agencies by passing a Mentally Defective Children Act. The stone-laying took place in a marquee. Mr. A. Blackwell, chairman of the Birmingham Board of Guardians, presided; being supported by Mr. McKenna, the Bishop of Birmingham, (Dr. Russell Wakefield), Sir William Byrne (Chairman of the Board of Control under the Mental Deficiency Act), Sir George Kenrick (chairman of the Birmingham Education Committee). Sir Henry Manton. Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Miss Stilwell, Mrs. Rabone, Canon Astbury, Alderman W. H. Bowater, Alderman H. J. Sayer, Alderman Jephcott, Mr. H. J. Curtis (Clerk to the Guardians). Dr. Jordan (medical officer), Carse (matron), and many others.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Care of the Feeble-Minded: Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s Important Appointment: New National Body: The announcement made yesterday by Mr. McKenna, M.P., the Home Secretary, of the appointment of Mrs. Hume Pinsent (who has for some years been prominently identified in Birmingham with the movement for the care and treatment of feeble-minded children) as an honorary commissioner the new Board of Control — it is a central national authority – to whom in April of next year will be delegated the powers and duties of the Lunacy Commissioners, was received with general satisfaction. The new body will deal with the commissioners’ work as well that of the care of epileptic and feeble-minded persons. Mrs. Pinsent has, of course, been chosen as an expert on the subject. She is one of three unpaid honorary commissioners who are to be appointed, but the names of the others have not yet been published. The other members (to be paid) on the new Board of Control are twelve in number and consist of ten of the Lunacy Commissioners and Miss Denby, of Lancashire, and Dr. Rotherham, of Darenth Asylum, Kent. The latter gentleman is a Warwickshire man, and formerly lived in Coventry. … (continues)…
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Mr. McKenna in Birmingham: Extension of the Monyhull Colony: … Mr. W. A. Blackwell (chairman of the Birmingham Board of Guardians) presided and was supported on the platform by Mr. McKenna. Sir William Byrne (chairman of the Board of Control under the Mental Deficiency Act), Sir J. Kenrick, Sir H. Manton, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Miss Stillwell, Mrs. Labone, Canon Astbury, Alderman Bowater, Alderman Sayer, and Alderman Jephcott. The chairman, in introducing Mr. McKenna, expressed appreciation of his efforts to carry through the Mental Deficiency Act. It was an Act which, he hoped, would make their work in the colony permanently successful. … … (continues) … Mr. McKenna … (said) … He hoped they would not regard it as a mark of ill-will but rather as a proof of genuine admiration, that he had succeeded in taking from them one of the members of the Joint School Committee. The King had been pleased to approve the appointment of Mrs. Hume Pinsent as honorary commissioner on the new Board of Control, and Birmingham would lose her services. He was afraid this would make him a somewhat unwelcome visitor, one of those old emissaries of the Crown who used to spy out local wealth with a view to levying taxes on it, but they would not forget that Birmingham’s loss would be a gain to the whole country. (Hear, Hear.) Mrs. Pinsent’s valuable services to the cause of education and local government in Birmingham afforded the strongest testimony of her fitness for the new post, and gave assurance that the high standards of efficiency Birmingham had attained would be extended to other parts of the country in which so much has not yet been done … … … …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Birmingham Education Committee: Tribute to Mrs. Hume Pinsent: A meeting of the Birmingham Education Committee was held this afternoon at the Council House, Alderman Sir George Kenrick, chairman, presiding. The Lord Mayor (Lieutenant-Colonel E. Martineau) distributed the certificates to the winners of the major and minor scholarships and also the Fallows history prizes. The chairman announced a letter from the Town Clerk stating that Mrs. Pinsent had resigned her seat on the City Council, and therefore on the Education Committee, and took that opportunity to say something as to the deep personal feeling entertained towards her for the work she had done. After the passing of the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893 the Special Schools Committee was formed, and Mrs. Pinsent went on the committee, and after three years was appointed chairman. She had also served on various other committees. She had given most unwearied care and attention to the work of the Special Schools Committee which at times had seriously affected her health. Mrs. threw herself into the work and attracted so much attention that she was appointed a member The. Royal Commission, and in that capacity, she travelled abroad, and she had proved a most valuable member of that Commission. Sir George Kenrick also spoke her share in the movement which culminated in Monyhull Colony. Others who paid tribute to Mrs. Pinsent’s work and character were Councillor Herrick, Alderman Jephcott, and Mrs. George Cadbury, who specially referred to her work on the Hygiene Committee.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Woman Councillors: By our Special Correspondent: It is a matter of regret, to those who wish to see their own city in the van of progress, that neither of the great political parties in Sheffield (where municipal elections are run on purely Party Lines) is putting forward a woman candidate for the forthcoming City Council election … … … Miss Sutton, of Reading, who has been a Town Councillor since 1907, has already been elected unopposed. Miss Clara Martineau has also been returned without opposition in Birmingham, which already has a woman on the Council – Mrs. Hume Pinsent. Both these ladies are Unionists – Birmingham is not Sheffield. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949