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Women and the Honours List: … … Twenty-four men received the C.B.E. and five women … (includes) … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner, Board of Control … …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Women in the Birthday Honours: Though there is a fair sprinkling of women in the Honours List many names are conspicuously absent. In the honours conferred on Madame Albani, already announced in these columns, Lady St. Helier, Miss Lumsden, Miss Beadsmore Smith, Mrs. Wills, and Lady Cook, the services of women in the sphere of art, education, public work, and nursing have been recognized. Among others whose names appear we are pleased to notice Mrs. Hume Pinsent, whose work for the welfare of the feeble-minded deserves recognition, and Councillor Cox, of the Salvation Army, who have been awarded the G.B.E. Local Government is represented by Councillor Margaret Pilkington, of St. Helens, and Councillor Miss Henrietta Bartlett, of Birmingham. We have no space to mention other names, but one honour which strikes us as peculiarly well-deserved is that which falls to Miss Margaret Isabel Willden, Matron of the Leper Settlement, Botsabelo, Basutoland.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
King’s Birthday Honours: … … Recipients and the Services: … … Dame Commanders: … (includes )… Ellen Frances (Mrs. Hume) Pinsent, Commissioner, Board of Control:
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Birthday Honours: … A review of the honours conferred locally would be incomplete without referring to the distinction accorded Miss Councillor Bartleet, one of the women members of the local governing body whose abilities have been recognized by her colleagues in electing her chairman of the important Health Committee, and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who was well known locally before her removal to London …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Care of the Mentally Defective: The annual meeting of the Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare was held at Stafford on Saturday. … … Speaking on “The Working of the Mental Deficiency Act.,” Mrs. Hume Pinsent (Commissioner of the Board of Control) said many people looked upon the Act as an Act that was going to take away the liberty of people … (item is torn but continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
County Association for Mental Welfare: Shortage of Institutional Accommodation: … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control, gave an address on the work of the Mental Deficiency Act. She acknowledged the valuable assistance given by the voluntary associations, of which there were some or 50 in the country – Staffordshire not being the least. She emphasised the value of co-operation between these Associations and the parent body, and with regard mentally defective children in industrial schools said the only guarantee that they would receive continuous care, help and training was that the managers of these schools should cooperate with the voluntary associations and the local authorities in the matter. At present it was almost impossible to get young people out of mental hospitals because there was no room for them in mental defective institutions. This accommodation was greatly lacking in Staffordshire, but she understood they contemplated such provision, and it was one of the problems before them in carrying out the Act.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
County Metal Welfare Association: More Accommodation Required: Importance of Co-operation: The half annual meeting (?) of the Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare was held on Saturday afternoon in the County Hall, Staffordshire. David Charnwood chairman of the association, who presided, was supported on the platform by Mr. D. Lewis, vice-chairman, Sir Reginald Hardy, Bart., Mrs. Hume Pinsent (Commissioner of the Board of Control, the Central Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act) Mr. C. A. Wood … (continues) … (long discussion) … Official appointments were next made, and Mrs. Pinsent then delivered an address, which was afterwards described by the Chairman as vigorous, clear, straightforward and plain. She dwelt on the objects and aims of the association in relation to the Board of Control, the requirements of the Mental Deficiency Act and the best methods of serving those for whose benefit the act was passed, and the Association formed. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Annual Meeting of the County Voluntary Association: … … Mrs. Adrian had kindly consented to undertake the duties of hon. secretary in the place of Miss MacKenzie, As the daughter of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, she had previously acquired considerable knowledge in the administration of the Mental Deficiency Act, and for some time before her appointment she had been working in the office with Miss Mackenzie and Miss Dunstan. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0422 Devonport: Hester Agnes Pinsent: 1899 – 1966
More Asylums Wanted: Mental Deficiency Cases: the possibility of providing a colony for the care of mental defectives from Devon, Cornwall, Exeter and Plymouth was discussed at a conference held in the Guildhall, Exeter, yesterday afternoon, between representatives of the Board of Control, the Committee of the Starcross Institution, and local authorities of the Southwest. … … Village Green Idea: Mrs. Pinsent (Commissioner of the Board of Control) described the character of a colony it was desired to develop. The Government wanted it grouped around a village green with plenty of open-air accommodation for every group. It should be made a village community, more of a home than a barracks. There was one such colony established near Birmingham …
[see similar Western Morning News: Friday 20th March 1925]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
New Plan at Mental Hospital: Opening of Extension Ceremony: Two innovations were mentioned at the four new pavilions of the Tooting Bec Mental Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. … (discussion) … among others present were … (list include) … commissioners of the board of control (Dr. C. H. Bond and Mrs. Pinsent) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949