Tag: GRO0245

Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News: Saturday 25th March 1922

Land at the Mental Hospital: Alderman Field moved that the sanction of the Council be given to the Mental Hospital Visiting Committee to lease for 7 years 32 acres of arable land adjoining the Mental Hospital estate. … He said: “The primary object of the Visiting Committee is to increase the necessary facilities for patient labour, and thus to help to make the hospital self-supporting so far as our farming operations are concerned. In their report, dated 15th September 1921, and entered in our visitors’ book over the signatures of Dr. R. W. Branthwaite and Miss Ellen F. Pinsent, two of the Commissioners of the Board of Control, they remark, “From the point of view of treatment, we wish that it could be found possible to provide out-door occupation for some of the younger women in the institution … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 12th August 1921

New Woman J.P.: Miss Martineau Added to the City Roll: An addition to the women members of the Birmingham magistrates was announced yesterday, when the Town Clerk received official intimation that the name of Miss Clara Martineau, perhaps the best-known woman member of the City Council, had been added to the roll of J.P.s for the city. … … (discussion of careers) … … For many years she has taken a keen interest in education and when elected to the Council in succession to Mrs. Pinsent, she became a member of the Special Schools Sub-Committee … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser: Friday 24th June 1921

Tonbridge Guardians and Rural Council: Needs of the Unemployed: The fortnightly meeting of the Tonbridge Board of Guardians we held at the workhouse, Pembury, on Friday, under the chairmanship of Mr. H. Hills, C.C.: … Mental Cases: The House Committee reported that Mrs. Pinsent a member of the Board of Control had inspected the proposed accommodation for mental deficient cases, along with the Committee and Colonel Harris and would report thereon to the Board of Control after receiving the plans and drawings prepared Colonel Harris, with her suggested amendments. Committee understood that as little expense as possible was to be incurred; that it was desirable to apply for the Institution a whole to be approved; that the classes of defectives should imbeciles and feeble-minded (the Guardians having the right to judge the suitability of any particular case), the age limits to be from seven to eighteen years. The question of fencing off the Recreation Ground, provision of workshops in the recreation yard, and the matters of staff, sanitary and bathing accommodation and staff quarters were also discussed, with a view minimising capital outlay and maintenance expenses. The report was adopted.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette: Friday 20th May 1921

By order of Mrs. H. C. Pinsent “Glenfield,” Foxcombe Hill, Near Oxford: A Portion of the Costly Contents of this Residence: … Including: Bedroom Suites in Satin and American Walnut and white Enamel, Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Spring, Hair and Wool Mattresses, Blankets, Bolsters and Pillows, Duchesse Dressing Chests, Tables and Washstands, and the usual assortment of Bed Requisites: … Fine Sheraton Dining Table (to seat 22), Winged and other Easy Chairs, Luxurious Chesterfields, Fine Enclosed Bookcases in the Chippendale style … (continues) …  To be Sold by Auction by E. J. Brooks & Sons, Upon the Premises on Wednesday June 1st, 1921, at Eleven o’clock. Catalogues of the Auctioneers, 14 and 15 Magdalen Street, Oxford, Tel. 329.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Vote: Friday 13th May 1921

Women Commissioners: Miss Ruth Darwin and Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent have been appointed Commissioners under the Mental Deficiency Act. Mrs. Pinsent is a paid Commissioner.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

London Daily News: Wednesday 30th March 1921

Social and Personal: A new portrait of Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent who has been appointed commissioner of the Board of Control to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Miss Mary Dendy. Photograph of Mrs. Pinsent:

[See also Daily Dispatch: Wednesday 30th March 1921: Includes Photograph]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Leek Times: Saturday 5th March 1921

Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent has been appointed a Commissioner of the Board of Control to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Miss Mary Dendy.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Bayswater Chronicle: Saturday 5th March 1921

Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent has been appointed a Commissioner of the Board of Control to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Miss Mary Dendy.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Western Daily Press: Wednesday 16th February 1921

On the recommendation of the Minister of Health, the King has appointed Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent to be a Commissioner of the Board of Control, vice Miss Mary Dendy, retired.

[see also Scotsman: 16th February 1921 & Sheffield Independent, Wednesday 23rd February 1921]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Nottingham Journal: Friday 26th November 1920

Burden of Idiocy: Suggestions for Special Care of Child Victims: Several hundred delegates from local authorities attended the opening session of a three days’ conference on mental deficiency in London yesterday … … Parental Control Advisable: … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner to the Board of Control, said there should be a school where the mentally defective children could receive special attention and proper training, preferably in a day school, because a child, wherever possible, should be left under parental control. … … (continues) … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949