Tag: GRO0738

Glasgow Herald: Friday 16th April 1897

[From the “Illustrated London News”]: The will (dated November 13, 1896), with a codicil, made at Cairo (dated January 15, 1897), of Mr. Henry Charles Fulford, for a short time M.P.  for the Lichfield Division, chairman of the Holt Brewery (Limited), of 69 Cadogan Gardens, and of Augustus Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham who died on January 18, was proved on March 15 at the Birmingham District Registry by Mrs. Mary Agnes Fulford, the widow; Richard Alfred Pinsent, and Henry Robert Hodgkinson, the nephew, the executors, the value of the personal estate being £422,151 gross and £317,501 net. The testator gives, besides bequests to relatives, £5000 for such charitable institutions and purposes in Birmingham as his executors shall think fit. … (continues) …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

London Standard: Wednesday 14th April 1897

Wills and Bequests: Estate duty has been paid on £317,501 as the net or actual value, the gross value being £422,151 of the personal estate of Mr. Henry C. Fulford, of Augustus Road, Edgbaston Birmingham, and of 69 Cadogan Gardens, chief proprietor of the Holt Brewery, President of the Liberal Council and Treasurer of the Liberal Association, and for a short time M.P. for Lichfield, who died on January 18, aged forty-seven, at Cairo. The will, with a codicil, was made in Cairo on January 16, the executors are his widow, his nephew, Mr. H. R. Hodgkinson, of Norwood House, Erdington and Mr. R. A. Pinsent of Birmingham, solicitor, to each of whom (for the executor-ship) the testator bequeathed £250 and to Mr. Pinsent, as acting trustee, a commission of five per cent per annum on the net income of the estate but such commission is not to exceed £500 a year … (details of will) …

[see similar: Liverpool Mercury: Thursday 15th April 1897]

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham & Aston Chronicle: Saturday 4th December 1896

A Solicitor Struck off the Rolls: In the Queen’s Bench Division on Monday before Baron Huddleston and Mr. Justice Manisty, Mr. Wills applied on behalf of Mr. Bernard Gilpin of Longford, Cannock, to strike a solicitor, practicing at West Bromwich, off the rolls. Applicant deposed in his affidavit that, in 1878, the solicitor in question acted for him in two matters, one a mortgage Transaction and the other a sale of property, and in or about July of that year he was entrusted by applicant with three sums of money, amounting in all to £38, for payment to other persons. Recently Mr. Gilpin discovered that the solicitor had not paid money, and he had had to pay the amounts over again. Mr. Pinsent, of the firm of Barlow, Smith and Pinsent, solicitors, Birmingham deposed to applying, on behalf of the applicant, for the money, and threatening proceedings: and their clerk deposed to serving the solicitor with notice of the proceedings. The name of the solicitor was not mentioned in court, and he did not appear either personally or by counsel. — His name was struck off the rolls.

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Coventry Evening Telegraph: Thursday 24th September 1896

Weddings at Radford: Mr. H. R. Winterton – Miss M. Hill: In St. Nicholas Church, Radford, this afternoon, Miss Mabel Hill, second daughter of Colonel C. J. and Mrs. Hill of Elmfield, Coventry, was married to Mrs. Herbert Ralph Winterton, son of Mr. Thomas Winterton of Walton Warren, near Burton … (description of wedding and list of wedding presents, includes) … Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent, old oak; Mr. and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, oak trays …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Coventry Evening Telegraph: Monday 4th May 1896

The Quinton Cycle Co. Limited: Meeting of Shareholders: A meeting of the shareholders of the Quinton Cycle Company Limited, was held at the Quinton Works, Cheylesmore, today “for the purpose of considering and authorising the directors to enter into an agreement for the sale of the company’s undertaking, business and assets to a new company, to be formed for the purpose (among other objects) of acquiring such undertaking, business and assets.” Ald. Pollack of Birmingham (chairman of directors) presided, and there were also present … (includes) … R. A. Pincent (solicitor) …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Western Times: Tuesday 17th December 1895

Devonians in Birmingham and the Midlands: At the fourth annual meeting of the above Society held at the Great Western Hotel, Birmingham, the following elections took place…. Vice-presidents … (list includes) … R. A. Pinsent (Devonport)

[see also Derby Daily Telegraph: Monday 16th December 1895]

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 23rd November 1895

Edmund Henry Knowles, Deceased: Pursuant to the Statute 22 and 23 Vict. Cap 35, Notice is hereby given that all Persons having any claim against the estate of Edmund Henry Knowles, late of Chester Road, Erdington, in the county of Warwick, gentleman (who died on the 27th day of May 1887 and to whose estate Letters of Administration were granted by the Birmingham District Register of her Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 1st day of August 1896 to Richard Alfred Pinsent, Alfred Henry Evans and Thomas Mercer), are hereby required to send written particulars of such claims to the undersigned, solicitors for the said Administrators of the Deceased, on or before the 31st day of December 1895, after which date the said Administrators will distribute the Assets of the Deceased, having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have received notice: Dated the 12th day of November 1895: Smith, Pinsent and Co., 39, Waterloo Street, Birmingham, Solicitors for the said Administrators: … …

[see similar for Henry Vernon Howson, Arthur Scruton and Sarah Jane Scruton] … 

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Post: Thursday 21st November 1895

Robert Thornley: Deceased: Pursuant to Statute 22 and 23, Vict. Cap. 35, Notice is hereby given that all persons having any claim against the estate of Robert Thornley, late of Snow Hill in the City of Birmingham, and of Bishop’s Cleeve, in the county of Gloucester, gentleman … (etc). … (and also Edmund Henry Knowles – Richard Alfred Pinsent one of the executors – and Arthur Scruton and Sara Jane Scuton, all deceased), Smith, Pinsent and Co., 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, Solicitors for the said executors … 

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Worcestershire Chronicle: Saturday 11th May 1895

Death of Mr. W. B. Williamson, Mayor of the city … The Funeral: … The Mourners … (Included) … Mr. R. A. Pinsent …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 9th March 1895

Property Sale: On Wednesday Next March 13: William Fowler and Pemberton will sell by auction, at their property art, 69, Temple Row, Birmingham, on Wednesday Next March 13, at Seven o’clock in the evening (exact time) subject to the common form conditions of the Birmingham Law Society – the following valuable freehold and leasehold properties … (eight commercial, retail and manufacturing lots in Aston, Wylde Green, & on Birchfield Road, Summer Lane and Snow Hill etc. in Birmingham) … Further particulars as to Lots 1 to 6, from Messrs. Smith, Pinsent, Pinsent and Freeman, solicitors, Waterloo Street … (continues) …

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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948