Tag: GRO0245

Coventry Times: 14th August 1912

Women’s Sphere of Activity: … that elaborate schemes for extending this work and inducing women to take part in it are nothing but waste of energy so long as it is within the power of a man-elected Parliament to frame measures such as the Franchise Bill now before the House of Commons, by which women’s meagre rights and privileges can be snatched away without their opinion being even consulted? A case in point is that of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in Birmingham, who under the bill as it stands at present will lose her seat on the Birmingham Town Council. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Lake’s Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser: Friday 9th August 1912

Visitors Staying at Hotels: … … Green Bank Hotel: … list of visitors includes … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Miss and Masters Pinsent, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent and sons …

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GRO0157 Devonport: Clive Pinsent: 1886 – 1948
GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918
GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0422 Devonport: Hester Agnes Pinsent: 1899 – 1966
GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Pinsent: 1855 – 1931
GRO0571 Devonport: Laurence Alfred Pinsent: 1894 – 1915
GRO0774 Devonport: Philip Ryland Pinsent: 1897 – 1916
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
GRO0740 Devonport: Richard Parker Pinsent: 1894 – 1915
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

South Wales Echo: Wednesday 15th May 1912

Lady Pioneer: Mrs. Pinsent member of the Birmingham Corporation caused a decided sensation at the meeting of the Association of the of Municipal Corporations yesterday. She is the first woman who has ever been elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the association. The strangeness of the situation completely upset the municipal dignitaries from the Lord Mayor of London downwards. The Lord Mayor called her “my lady” and so did several others. Mrs. Pinsent signalized her accession to the association by a well-reasoned address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a valuable member.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Lincolnshire Chronicle: Friday 22nd March 1912

Care of the Feeble-minded: Public Meeting at Lincoln: … Address by Dean Fry … He was supported by Mrs. Pinsent (Late of the Royal Commission) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Devizes and Wilts Advertiser: Thursday 30th November 1911

The Problem of the Feeble Minded: A New Scheme Adopted: Farm Colony to be Established: … (long discussion) … Mrs. Hume Pinsent of Birmingham (member of the late Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble Minded) supported in a striking address in which she gave some remarkable figures showing the failure of the provisions for dealing with Feeble minded … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

South Eastern Advertiser: 28th October 1911

Eleven women candidates have come forward for election or re-election at the municipal elections next week. Three of these candidates are standing for re-election. Miss Hope, the nominee of the women’s Local Government Association at Bath; and Miss Margaret Ashton M.A. and Mrs. Redford at Manchester. Mrs. Hume Pinsent is standing for election the Conservative interest at Birmingham, while Miss Margaret Pugh is nominee of the Women’s Local Government Association for the new Erdington North Ward.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Northampton Herald: Friday 3rd March 1911

The Feeble-Minded: The Present Stress: What of the Future: Lecture by Mrs. Pinsent: The following lecture on “The Care of the Feeble Minded” was given on Thursday week by Mrs. Pinsent in the Lecture Hall Free Library at a meeting in connection with the National Society for the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded. At the outset of her address, Mrs. Pinsent said that in order to thoroughly understand the full extent of the harm caused by the neglect of the mentally defective, they must first consider the existing laws concerning defectives and ascertain how far they enable them to deal satisfactorily the question. … (long discussion of the issue) … Concluding, Mrs. Pinsent said that the Government were attempting to deal with the mentally defective through four different departments. First the Board of Education provided unsuitably education for the mentally defective children. That education did not render them self-supporting or self-standing citizens. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Nottingham Guardian: Thursday 8th November 1910

The Month’s Reviews: Nineteenth Century: … … American affairs are considered by Mr. A. Maurice Low, Mr. W. E. Bear writes on “The Single Tax Mania,” and on the subject of “Social Responsibility and Heredity,” Mrs. Pinsent remarks that “Methods such as control of the mentally defective are not an cannot be sufficient. Something further must be done to meet the position in which we find ourselves today. I mean the position arising from the fact that the undesirable sections of the population are producing children at a faster rate than the desirable. The efficient members of society must be encouraged to have larger families. This is the problem of the future.”  …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Hunts County News: 1st October 1910

Church Congress at Ely … … In the other section heredity and social responsibility was the subject of papers by Dr. E. Shuttleworth and Mrs. Pinsent, who spoke of the necessity of segregating the feeble-minded with a view to diminishing the propagation of the unfit. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Halifax Daily Guardian: 28th September 1910

Discussion at the Church Congress: … … Mrs. Pinsent, member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-Minded pointing out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing, argued that the desirable and efficient members of society must be encouraged to have large families, and that there should be direct State encouragement to the reproduction of better stocks. …

[see related: Sheffield Independent: 29th September 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949