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Birmingham Musical Festival: … R. A. Pinsent … (among others) … be requested to act on the Place letting Committee: The chairman and deputy chairman of the General Committee were appointed ex officio members of all committees:
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Fashionable Marriage at Merstham: Miss B. L. Roffey and Mr. H. A. Caffin: Yesterday afternoon at St. Katherine’s Church, Merstham, the marriage was solemnized between Miss Beatrice Laura Roffey, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Roffey, of the Grange, Merstham, and Mr. Herbert Alexander Caffin, youngest son of the late Rev. Charles Smart and Mrs. Caffin, of Broadway, Worcestershire … (description of wedding) … The Guests: … (include) … Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Ryland, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caffin, the Rev. W. and Mrs. Flory, Mrs. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent … … List of Present: … (includes) … Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent, cheque … …
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GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce: A meeting of the council of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, at the Exchange; Mr. F. B. Goodman presiding -On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Tonks, Mr. Jesse Collings, M.P, was unanimously reappointed president of the Chamber. Mr. F. B. Goodman was re-elected chairman, Mr. H. C. Field vice-chairman, and Mr. W. M. Whitehead treasurer. The Commercial Bills Committee recommended the council to petition the House of Commons in favour of the Registration of Firms Bill and the County Courts Bill. Mr. R. A. Pinsent had been reappointed chairman for the ensuing year. In a special report the committee stated that they had carefully considered the Companies Bill, and felt that, subject to certain modifications, the bill should receive the council’s support. The difficulty in legislation of that class was to provide on the one hand adequate safeguards for inexperienced investors, and to avoid on the other restrictions which would limit enterprise and penalties which would deter responsible and capable men. The committee made a number of suggestions, which Mr. Pinsent explained to the council. As a trading community, there was one section which he thought would justify the bill being passed. It was a matter of choice whether they invested or not, but whether they traded was almost a matter of necessity, and they knew how serious it was where companies had debentures over their assets. Every company would be required to register all its debentures, and that register would be open to inspection. He suggested that its operation should be extended not merely to include ordinary debentures, but to mortgages on book debts. They would be sorry if investors were to think, by the passing of the bill, that investment in joint stock companies was an easy or safe matter. His experience was that there was perhaps no duty which businessmen discharged with so little care as the investment of their money. They were often more careful over the selection of an office boy than of the investment of their money (Laughter.) Others were tempted into investing by high rates of interest, while another motive was the selling of shares at a profit. To those the Act would offer no benefit. It offered protection to those who exercised care, and looked at their prospectuses, in that it was now compulsory to supply many subjects of information. The committee thought that the question of “goodwill” should be omitted, as being too great a restriction on company enterprise. The report was unanimously adopted in favour of the holding of Parliamentary elections in boroughs in one day, and in counties within a week. Mr. Jesse Collings, M.P. and Messrs. F. B. Good- man, H. C. Field, and J. W. Tonks were appointed delegates to attend the forthcoming Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire. The other business was of a routine character. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce: Trade of the Year: The annual meeting of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, at the Exchange; Mr. F. B. Goodman (chairman of the council) presiding. In moving the adoption of the annual report (which has been given in the Daily Post) the chairman said that … (discussion) … Local Trade: Reference was made in the report of the chamber to the falling off in exports under the heading of hardware and cutlery during the last ten or fifteen years. He could not help feeling the falling off was not as great as it appeared, but was due probably to changes in trade, which had drifted into different channels. … The Education Committee had done a great deal of useful work, and Mr. H. C. Field had proved himself a most exemplary chairman. The Commercial Bills Committee, with Mr. R. A. Pinsent, as chairman, had most carefully examined the bills that had come before it and the chamber. [elected chair the following year] ……
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
PUBLIC NOTICES: CHARLES ASHMALL (DECEASED): Pursuant to the Statute 22 and 23 Vic., Chap.3s. Notice is hereby given, that all persons having any claims against the Estate of CHARLES ASHMALL, late of 14, Union Road, Milverton, Leamington, in the County of Warwick, Esquire, (who died on the 4th day of February, 1900, and whose will was proved in the Birmingham District Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 10th day March, 1900, by Alfred Ashmall Whitehouse and Richard Alfred Pinsent, the Executors therein named) are hereby required to send written particulars of such claim to the undersigned Solicitors for the said Executors of the deceased on or before the 5th day of May, 1900, after which date the said Executors will distribute the assets of the deceased, having regard only to the claims which they shall then have received notice, and they will not be liable for the assets of the said deceased, or any part thereof so distributed, any person or persons of whose claims they shall not then have had notice: Dated this 14th day of March, 1900, PINSENT & CO., Bennett’s Hill, Birmingham, Solicitors for the said Executors.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Birmingham Musical Festival: The Programme: Mr. Elgars’ New Work: The first outline of the programme for the Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, which is to be held in October next was given yesterday afternoon, at the meeting of the General Committee. … Apologies for absence were by …. (includes) … R. A. Pinsent …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Birmingham University: Degree Congregation at the Town: Sir Oliver Lodge and His Retirement: … The honorary degree of Master of Arts conferred today were all received by local citizens whom the University desire, in the words of Sir Oliver Lodge “to have enrolled on its Guild of Graduates.” … includes … Mrs. E. F. Pinsent and Mr. R. A. Pinsent …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Women and the Legal Profession: Views of Law Society Members: Solicitors discussed the admission of women to the legal profession, yesterday, at a special urgent meeting of the Law Society, to consider the provisions of Lord Buckmaster’s Barristers and Solicitors (Qualification of Women) Bill. Mr. R. A. Pinsent presided. Mr. Samuel Garrett (ex-president of the Law Society) moved that in view of the present economic and political position of women, it was expedient that the existing obstacles to their entry into the legal profession should be removed. It was, he said, unthinkable that, after all that they had done in the war, women should be prevented from transferring to a civil occupation the energies shown during the war. Lord Buckmaster’s Bill was as certain to pass as anything was certain in politics. Sir Walter Trower, seconding the resolution, said that was a matter of equality of opportunity. If women proved themselves to be as good at business, or better, than men, they would succeed. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Birmingham Officer’s Italian Decoration: Captain (Acting Lieutenant Colonel) W. C. C. Gell, D.S.O., M.C., R. War. R. (T), who has been awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valour, is the son of Mr. W. J. Gell, of Core Lynn, Warwick Road, Solihull. At the conclusion of his university career at Cambridge he was articles to Mr. R. A. Pinsent of Messrs. Pinsent & Co., Birmingham, and subsequently went to London, where he was engaged when the war broke out. …
[see similar: Birmingham Mail: Wednesday 12th March 1919]
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Reconstruction in the Legal Profession: Fusion of the Two Branches and Women’s Admission. The fusion of the two branches of the legal profession and the admission of women were two of the subjects referred to the annual meeting of the Birmingham Law Society yesterday … (discussion) … Mr. L. Gocher moved a resolution to the effect that, having regard to the number of Birmingham solicitors members of the Birmingham Law Society, who had not had an opportunity of voting in the ballot recently taken by the Law Society upon the fusion of the two branches of the profession, a special meeting be convened to take a vote on the question … … Mr. R. A. Pinsent opposed the motion, saying that the matter had been thrashed out ad nauseam in the press, and said that the conclusion to be declared by the Law Society’s ballot would be a fair one for the profession at large. Mr. Coley suggested Mr. Gocher should withdraw his motion – a suggestion which was adopted.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948