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Erdington News: Saturday 13th June 1913

Birmingham Education Committee: Big Scheme for Technical School Extension: … (discussion) … Mrs. Pinsent asked if arrangements could be made for infants to attend school for half a day only. Mr. W. J. Harris urged that by admitting children under five the Committee was not only acting un-educationally, but also unkindly to the children in after years. Councillor Freeland replied to Councillor Johnson that if the exception he suggested was to be applied it could not be to the Handsworth Ward School. Regarding Mrs. Pinsent’s suggestion, he pointed out the Committee would not get any grant for the children attending half time only, but his Sub-committee would present a report on the matter. … (continues)…

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 13th June 1913

New Wranglers at Cambridge: Three Birmingham Mein in the List: In the list of thirty new male Wranglers published from Cambridge, and given in yesterday’s Mail, appear the names of three Birmingham students — E. D. Marris, D. H. Pinsent, and C. E. Winn. … … David Hume Pinsent is native of Birmingham, having been born Edgbaston, May 24, 1891, and now resides in Lordswood Road. Harborne, Birmingham. He is the son of Mr. Hume Pinsent. After being at school Lambrook, Biacknell, Berkshire, he passed on to Marlborough, where he won Senior Mathematical Scholarship and a number of mathematical prizes. He arrived at Trinity College in 1910 with a scholarship and has carried off college prizes.

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GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918
GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian: Friday 6th June 1913

Women’s Liberal Association: The usual monthly meeting of the First Walthamstow Women’s Association (Hoe Street Ward) was held at the “Pioneer Café,” Hoe Street on Monday Evening. Mrs. Greenshields presided. … reports from various delegates were given … The meeting includes speeches on “Education,” by Miss Haldane, Mrs. Burgwin, Dr. Addison M.P. and Dr. Haden Guest; on “Mental Deficiency,” by Mr. W. H. Dickenson, M.P. and Mrs. Pinsent; on “Trade Boards” and “Sweating,” by Miss Sophy Sanger … (continues) … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 31st May 1913

Technical School: City’s £105,000 Scheme Adopted: Organiser of Meals: … … Councillor Freeland introduced the report of the Elementary Education Sub-committee, who recommended an amended scheme for the award of prizes to scholars of the elementary schools … … Mr. Freeland said the sub-committee had been obliged to realise that in many parts of the district it was far better the children should be in school than running about the streets. In a great many cases both parents went to work. Otherwise, the sub-committee would, as a principle, feel that five was quite early enough for children to go to school. Mrs. Hume Pinsent asked if it were possible that the infants in the poorer districts should attend school only half the day. Could they have a rota by which half the infants attended in the morning and the other half in the afternoon? It has struck her that in asking children under five to attend school in two sessions, they were asking more than was compatible with the health of the children. In reply to Mrs. Pinsent, Mr. Freeland said she had raised a novel point – a point which he had some sympathy with. When they came to the question of expenses they would be faced with difficulties. He could not see how they could get any grant for children who only attended half the day. Mrs. Pinsent: Is it not a subject big enough to have a deputation to the Board of Education on? The recommendation was carried, and it was stated that Mrs. Pinsent’s suggestion would be considered by the sub-committee: … …  

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 30th May 1913

Education Committee: Children Under Five in Elementary Schools: The Proposed Exclusion: … Mrs. Hume Pinsent asked whether it would not be possible for the infants in the poorer districts to be admitted on a half-time rota. Such a system would be more beneficial to the health of the children than that they should attend for the whole day. By the adoption of that scheme, they would be able to keep in touch with all the children in the poorer parts of the city. Alderman Pritchett approved of Mrs. Pinsent’s suggestion but would like to extend it and enquire whether it was not possible for the parents in those districts where children under five were admitted to be asked whether they preferred their children to attend school for half a day or the whole day. Councillor Freeland, in reply, said the matter had been very carefully considered, and the committee thought the suggestion was the best way out of the difficulty. Regarding Mrs. Pinsent’s suggestion he thought they would be met with the difficulty that they would get no grant. Mrs. Pinsent: Would it not be possible to ask the Board of Education to reconsider the matter? The resolution was carried.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

London Daily News: Wednesday 28th May 1913

Feeble-Minded Facts: Liberal women’s Views on the Subject: A Unanimous Plea for the Bill: Some extraordinarily impressive speeches marked the first day’s proceedings of the annual conference of the Women’s National Liberal Association which opened yesterday in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street. … … There could have been nothing more moving, for example, than the recital of actual happenings with which Mrs. Pinsent and Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., made out their case for the Mental Deficiency Bill; and the absolute unanimity with which this representative group of Liberal women supported the measure is a notable thing for those who base their campaign against it upon “the liberty of the subject.” “Those who talk of the liberty of the subject,” observed Mrs. McKenna, who presided, “know little of the subject of liberty”; and on this head Mrs. Pinsent produced the appallingly red chart of the life of a feeble-minded woman who has been convicted over 200 times, generally of being drunk and disorderly. Stupid Punishment: “Her liberty has been somewhat interfered with”, Mrs. Pinsent remarked, “in a manner that is of absolutely no good to her or to the community. When we get the Bill through, we shall be able to stop this stupid punishment of the feebleminded.” Mrs. McKenna said that “the Home Secretary intended, to-day or to-morrow, to reintroduce the Bill which had been framed to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commission.” … (continues at length) … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Staffordshire Sentinel: Wednesday 28th May 1913

Women Liberals and Feeble Minded Bill: Unanimous Pleas for the Measure (From the “Daily News.”): Extraordinarily impressive speeches marked the first day’s proceedings of the annual conference of the Women’s National Liberal Association, which opened on Tuesday in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London. The great gathering of ladies is entitled to congratulation on the closeness with which the speakers kept to hard argumentative facts as distinct from mere rhetoric. There could have been nothing more moving, for example, than the recital of actual happenings with which Mrs. Pinsent and Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., made out their case for the Mental Deficiency Bill; and the absolute unanimity with which this representative group of Liberal women supported the measure is a notable thing for those who base their campaign against it upon “the liberty of the subject.” “Those who talk of liberty of the subject,” observed Mrs. McKenna, who presided, “know little of the subject of liberty,” and on this head Mrs. Pinsent produced the appalling chart of the life of a feeble-minded woman who has been convicted over 200 times of being drunk and disorderly.  “Her liberty has been somewhat interfered with,” Mrs. Pinsent remarked, “in a manner that is of absolutely no good to her or to the community. When we get the Bill through, we shall be able to stop this stupid punishment of the feeble-minded.” A resolution urging every effort on behalf of the Bill was carried unanimously.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

London Daily News: Tuesday 27th May 1913

Social and Personal: Mrs. Asquith, President of the Women’s National Liberal Association will, at the Connaught Rooms this morning, welcome the delegates attending the annual conference. Mrs. J. A. Pease will take the chair at the morning session, when Miss Haldane, Mr. Addison, M.P., Mrs. Burgwin, and Dr. Haden Guest will speak on Education. At the afternoon session, Mrs. McKenna will preside; and papers will be read by Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., and Mrs. Pinsent … (continues) … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Buckinghamshire Examiner: Friday 23rd May 1913

Amersham Ruri-Decanal Conference: Important Subjects Disposed at Iver: The annual ruri-decanal conference for the deanery of Amersham was held at the Iver Schools, on Thursday last, at the invitation of the Rev. W. E. Gilliat, when a number of subjects of interest were discussed … (continues) … To conclude with the words of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, one of the Royal Commissioners: “None can disagree with the main proposition of the Report, namely, that there should be one authority, endowed with sufficient powers to train and control the mentally defective. Let us sink all small differences and unite in asking for immediate legislation. It may safely be said that there is no other single measure at present before the public which would have such far-reaching and beneficial effects. The passing of the suggested Act for the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective would at once reduce drunkenness, crime, unchastity, illegitimate births, and disease; it would be the first preventative step in dealing with a great evil which threatens us with a steady deterioration of national efficient, both mental and moral.” … (continues)…

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette: Saturday 17th May 1913

Amersham Ruri-Decanal Conference: Important Subjects Discussed at Iver: The annual ruri-decanal conference for the deanery of Amersham was held at the Iver Schools, on Thursday last, at the invitation of the Rev. W. E. Gilliat, when a number of subjects of interest were discussed … … The Feeble-Minded: The Rev. G. H. Culshaw read the following paper on the care of the feeble-minded … (long discussion includes) … If anything I have said may lead us to think and may help us break the Puritan conspiracy of silence, I am more than thankful. I would like to make an earnest appeal to clergy and laity alike, to guardians and to members of education committees. To conclude with the words of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, one of the Royal Commissioners: “None can disagree with the main proposition of the Report, namely, that there should be one authority, endowed with sufficient posers to train and control the mentally defective. Let us sink all small differences and unite in asking for immediate legislation. It may safely be said that there is no other single measure at present before the public which would have such far-reaching and beneficial effects. The passing of the suggested Act for the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective would at once reduce drunkenness, crime, unchastity, illegitimate births, and disease; it would be the first preventative step in dealing with the great evil which threatens us with a steady deterioration of national efficient, both mental and moral.” …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949