Birmingham’s Loss: Mr. and Mrs. Hume Pinsent Going Away: Municipal By-election: Birmingham people have good reason to regret the decision of Mr. Hume Pinsent to retire from business because it means that both he and Mrs. Hume Pinsent will be leaving Birmingham very shortly to reside in the country. Mrs. Pinsent has been especially active in local affairs, and her valuable work in many directions can never be forgotten by the present generation. Her impending departure means a complete severance from the educational and other work in which she has figured so prominently, and one direct outcome will be to cause a by-election in Edgbaston Ward, which Mrs. Pinsent has represented on the City Council since 1911, when the Greater Birmingham scheme came into operation. In order that the by-election shall not clash with the November elections, Mrs. Pinsent will retire sometime in October and her successor will be chosen in the same month. Candidate for Vacancy: Miss Clara Martineau, a sister of the Lord Mayor, has already been adopted for the vacancy by the Liberal Unionist Executive Committee, and her candidature only requires the formal approval of the Conservatives. Miss Martineau is not a stranger to public work. She is on the Distress Committee, and has interested herself in many organisations working for the common good of the city. Mrs. Pinsent is a member of the City Education Committee and has been very prominent in advocacy of Government legislation for dealing with mentally defective work which has gained her a national reputation. She is also a member of the Asylums Committee: Regret to Leave Work: In an interview today, she said she was very sorry to have to give up her public work in Birmingham. “I should like it to be known,” she added, “that the only reason I am retiring is because we are going away, and that nothing else would have induced me to discontinue my public work in the city.” Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent will leave Birmingham in the autumn, but their future place of abode has not yet been definitely selected. [Photograph of Mrs. Pinsent].
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920