Tag: GRO0245

The Sussex Agricultural Express: Friday 7th March 1913

Rye: Board of Guardians: Mr. L. J. Pankhurst presided at the fortnightly meeting of the Board on Monday … A letter was read from Mr. Pinsent (sic) the chairman of the Committee, in connection with the Mental Deficiency Bill, asking the Guardians to pass a resolution urging that the measure should be passed during the next Session. The Clerk stated two similar resolutions had recently been passed and the Guardians considered no harm would be done by forwarding another and this course was agreed to…

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 22nd February 1913

City Council: Salaries of School Teachers: Proposal to Revise Scale Again Deferred: Special Schools Scheme Also Put Off: … long discussion … A Further Amendment: Alderman Clayton moved as an amendment that the question of the increases of teachers’ salaries should be adjourned until the final estimates of the Education Committee for 1913-14 had been sent to the Financial Committee … The amendment was carried by 46 votes to 44 … For the Amendment … Against the Amendment … (list includes) … Mrs. Pinsent …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 19th February 1913

Better Pay for Teachers: Proposals Deferred till May: Special Schools: Council Declines to Sanction Scheme: … … … Mentally Defective: Scheme for Gradual Erection of Special Schools: Sir George Kenrick, chairman of the Education Committee moved that special schools be erected at King’s Norton; Anglesey Street, Aston; at or near Lichfield Road Aston, at Greet, at Small Heath; and at Mount Road, Handsworth; and that the committee be authorised to proceed with their erection gradually, so that the provision of special school accommodation for the added districts will be spread over a period of ten year. Mrs. Pinsent seconded and staid the schools would have to be provided sooner or later. Public opinion in England no longer tolerated the neglect of children, and if the Council did not decide to provide for them today, they were simply postponing the day when they would be obliged to do so. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Tuesday 18th February 1913

Teachers’ Salaries: Discussion by Birmingham City Council: Sir George Kenrick and the Proposals: … … Alderman Clayton’s Amendment … (to defer discussion until the final estimates of the Education Committee for 1913-1914 have been sent to the Finance Committee) Carried: A Division was taken, and the voting was as follows: For Alderman Clayton’s Amendment: … 63 … Against: … 44, … including Mrs. Pinsent … Alderman Berry withdrew his amendment and Alderman Clayton’s was then put as the substantive resolution, and was adopted.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Queen: Saturday 15th February 1913

Franchise and Registration Bill: Position of Women in Local Government: The officers of the Women’s Local Government Society, Lady Strachey, Lady Lockyer and Miss A. L, Browne, send us the following letter: … includes … Moreover, in addition to reaffirming the sex inequalities introduced in 1894, the provision in the Bill that married women in England and Wales outside London should not vote in county and town council elections would have rendered statutory a disability as to which revising barristers are not agreed, a result of which would have led to prevent the continuance of Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s services on the Birmingham City Council. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Derby Daily Telegraph: Saturday 8th February 1913

National Union of Women Workers: Care of the Feeble Minded: The quarterly meeting of the National Union of Women Workers was held on Thursday evening in the Y.M.C.A. Building, Derby, when the chair was taken by the Hon. Mrs. Gell, who, in her opening remarks, said the subject was fraught with the deepest interest, for many feeble-minded people who could not be properly looked after became either criminals or inebriates. …. She next called upon Mrs. Hume Pincent, of the Royal Commission from Birmingham, to address the meeting on “The care of the feeble-minded.”

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 8th February 1913

City Council: Official’s Salaries … (long discussion) … The Merits of the Proposal … Mr. Walthall’s Amendment: Mr. Walthall moved the following amendment. “This Council, being not yet in a position to estimate the financial effects of the Greater Birmingham scheme and the various adjustments relating thereto, and having regard to a probably increase in the rates during the coming year, is of opinion that it is not advisable at the present time to sanction this increase, and consideration of the matter should be deferred for twelve months” … (discussion) … The voting … For the Amendment … Against the Amendment … (includes) … Mrs. Pinsent …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Kensington News and West London Times: Friday 7th February 1913

The Franchise and Registration Bill: The Franchise and Registration Bill has been withdrawn, but we consider it well worthwhile to direct the attention of the public to the effect which the bill, if passed, would have had on the local government franchise … …Moreover, in addition to re-affirming the sex inequalities intruded in 1894, the provision in the bill that married women in England and Wales outside London should not vote in county and town council elections would have rendered statutory a disability as to which revising barristers are not agreed, a result of which would have been to prevent the continuance of Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s services on the Birmingham City Council.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Votes for Women: Friday 7th February 1913

Article on the Franchise Bill with the following observation … a result of which would have been to prevent the continuance of Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s services on the Birmingham City Council.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 5th February 1913

No Increase of Salaries: City Council and Officials: Check on Rates: Advances to Teachers Not Considered: Business Done: The Birmingham City Council yesterday decided by 69 votes to 39 to postpone for twelve months consideration of a proposal to advance the salary of the Town Clerk by £300. Increases of salary suggested to several other leading officials were withdrawn … …  … The Voting: The Lord Mayor announced that the voting was: For the amendment, 69; against, 39; neutral, 1: The following voted For the Amendment: … … Against the Amendment: … … (includes) … Mrs. Pinsent … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949