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Blackburn Times: Saturday 25th September 1920

Blackburn Board of Guardians: … The fortnightly meeting of the Guardians for the Blackburn Union was held at the offices in Cardwell place on Saturday morning … … Commissioner and the Workhouse: Mrs. E. F. Pinsent, one of the visiting commissioners of the Board of Control, who recently made a visit to the Workhouse stated in the course of her report: – “I saw two patients who were classed as sane epileptics who seemed to me to be out of place in the imbecile wards. I would be very glad if the Guardians would consider the possibility of sending these cases for treatment and training in an epileptic colony. Some classification is served by accommodating the higher grade of the mentally defective in the body of the house, and lower grades in the imbecile ward with the patients certified under the Lunacy Act. But I trust that in the near future more classification will be possible, especially in the direction of removing all the children from the adults in the imbecile wards. I saw several children who were apparently almost always kept in bed. If the children of both sexes could be looked after by women attendants with the help of some of the feeble-minded girls in some wards set apart for the purpose, I think better results would be obtained and the necessity for keeping the children in bed obviated. The cases I saw were mostly paralyzed imbeciles who need constant attention – the day room space for the higher-grade feeble-minded girls and women does not seem to me quite sufficient; and I would like to see some definite training organized for the young women if they are to remain in this Poor-Law Institution. The young men have more varied occupations on the farm and in the shops. The patients seemed happy and cheerful and were suitably dressed. I feel sure that they are treated with consideration and kindness.”

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Bucks Herald: Saturday 24th April 1920

Mentally Defectives’ Welfare: Urgent Need for an Institution: The annual meeting of the general committee of the Bucks association for the Care of the Mentally Defective has held at the County Hall, Aylesbury on Tuesday, when there were present: Mr. J. M. Knapp (chairman, who presided), the Marquis and Marchioness of Lincolnshire, Mrs. Pinsent (member of the board of control) the Hon. Mrs. James … … An Address: Mrs. Pinsent accepted an invitation to address the meeting, and she expressed thanks to the Association for the valuable work it did. She knew from personal experience, she said, the difficulties that were to be met at every turn; many of them inherent in the nature of the cases with which they had to deal. They often arose from the unstable and excitable condition of the parents of the cases. There were great difficulties owing to defects in the Acts of Parliament under which they worked. There was the ever-present difficulty of obtaining money for the maintenance of the defectives, and there was the final difficulty of obtaining vacancies in any existing institution even for the most urgent cases. In the face of all these difficulties it was really marvellous how the Association persevered and commanded admiration. Before they could cope with the mentally defectives, they must have a farm or colony for every county, or combination of counties. The act of 1913 imposed on the borough and county authorities an obligation to find institutional accommodation, but the intervention of war had rendered many things impossible of accomplishment. Also, while war destroyed many of our best citizens, it left mentally defectives almost untouched. Emphasising the characteristics essential to the successful institutional treatment, Mrs. Pinsent said that with the acquisition of workhouses and other buildings already in existence the Associations looked forward to classification and effective treatment of patients, and better opportunities for training and employment. She appreciated the impossibility almost of building new places or colonies at the present time, but existing buildings could be adapted – whether a fair-sized country house or an empty country workhouse. There were some essentials to be borne in mind. There should be sufficient land in proximity to permit farming and gardening. The minimum amount of land which the Board of Control required for that purpose was 1 acre to every 20 patients. Combined action by local authorities would tend to better classification and economy. About 1 per 1,000 of the population would require care and treatment in a colony. Thus Bucks, with a population of 219,000 would require 220 places. Berks, 193, Oxon, 136, Oxford City about 52, and Reading about 87. All these authorities combined would require 689 places. If five authorities could not combine, two neighbouring authorities might do so, and invite others to send their cases under contract. At the instance of the Marquis of Lincolnshire, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mrs. Pinsent for her Address … … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Evening Despatch: Thursday 22nd January 1920

Death of Mr. H. C. Pinsent: The death is announced of Mr. Hume Chancellor Pinsent, a prominent member of the well-known firm of Birmingham solicitors, Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co. Mr. Pinsent, who was 62, and died at Foxcombe Hill, near Oxford, practiced at the Chancery Bar in London until 1888, when he settled in Birmingham as a member of the firm. He retired from business in 1913. Mr. Pinsent was associated with many movements directed toward the progress of education in the city. He joined the Council of the Midland Institute in 1897. For some time, he was a governor of Mason College, subsequently a member of the Council of the University, and was elected hon. Treasurer in 1912. Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who is still alive, achieved some popularity as a novelist. The funeral takes place at Wootton, Berks, on Saturday.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Friday 28th July 1939

Unified Mental Health Council: Plan of Feversham Committee: Laying “Asylum” Bogy: Far reaching proposals for the amalgamation of the four central voluntary mental health organizations into a National Council for Mental Health, and for the fuller co-ordination of statutory and voluntary mental health services in all local authority areas, are made in the report, issued today, of the committee presided over by the earl of Feversham. The committee was formed in 1936 on the initiative of a group of leading voluntary mental health organizations, and the Board of Control and other Government departments co-operated in the inquiry … (discussion) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Belfast Telegraph: Thursday 18th May 1939

Post for Ulster Doctor: Medical Chair in London: Dr. Samuel Nevin, son of District-Inspector Nevin (retired), formerly of Lisburn, was yesterday, at a meeting of the Senate of the University of London, appointed to the University Chair of the Pathology of Mental Disease, tenable at the Maudsley Hospital, S.E. London. He will take up his duties September next … … (continues) … … He was awarded a research fellowship by the Medical Research Council, tenable at the National Board of Never Diseases, London, in 1933. He was then appointed to the Pinsent-Darwin studentship in the University of Cambridge in 1936. 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 11th June 1937

Dame Commanders of O.B.E.: Mrs. Barrow Cadbury will continue to be known as Mrs. Barrow Cadbury. She went to Buckingham Palace yesterday and left a Dame Commander of the Order of the British empire., having been given that honour in the Coronation Honours List for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. She was invested in the company with Mrs. Ellen Pinsent (now Dame Ellen) who was Birmingham’s first woman city councillor. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Western Morning News: Friday 11th June 1937

Coronation Honours Investiture: … … Dame Commander: … An interesting group of ladies to be invested by the King with the honour of Dame Commander were Muriel Lady Anderson, Dame Mary Browne (better known to the public as Miss Marie Tempest), Dame Geraldine Cadbury, Dame Ellen Pinsent, Lady Strickland, and Dame Violet Wills. … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Evening Despatch: Thursday 10th June 1937

Mrs. Barrow Cadbury Not to be Dame Geraldine. Mrs. Barrow Cadbury will continue to be known as Mrs. Barrow Cadbury. She went to Buckingham Palace today and left a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, having been given that honour in the Coronation Honours List for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. … Mrs. Cadbury was invested in the company with Mrs. Ellen Pinsent (now Dame Ellen), who was Birmingham’s first woman city councillor.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Reading Standard: Friday 21st May 1937

Mental Health: Services Provided by Berkshire and Oxfordshire Authorities: It has been a firmly rooted tradition in English local government that no publicity shall be given to the services which are provided by local authorities … (continues) … Since the statutory bodies do so little to make themselves known, there is a great advantage in an impartial study such as Mrs. E. F. Pinsent’s “Mental Health Services in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Berkshire” (2/- net). It is the first section that has yet appeared of a survey which will cover all the main services in the Oxford area and which has been organized from Barnett House. The report gives an account of the powers held by the local authorities …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Liverpool Daily Post: Tuesday 11th May 1937

Coronation Honours List: … … Dames Commanders: … (include) … Ellen Frances, Mrs. Pinsent, late Senior Commissioner, Board of Control … 

[see related Liverpool Daily Post: Wednesday 12th May 1937]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949