Tag: GRO1118

Cornishman: Thursday 19th October 1939

County: The engagement is announced between John Laurence Pinsent, elder son of Major J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O., and Mrs. Pinsent of Priors Barton, Winchester, and Margaret Molyneux, eldest daughter of the late Mr. R. Vernon Favell, of Penberth, St. Buryan, Cornwall.

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Referenced

GRO0525 Devonport: John Laurence Pinsent: 1916 – 2014
GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969
GRO1374 Devonport: Margaret Molyneux Favell: 1918 – 2010

Western Morning News: Monday 16th October 1939

Personal: … Mr. J. L. Pinsent and Miss Favell: The engagement is announced between John Laurence, elder son of Major J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O., and Mrs. Pinsent of Prior’s Barton, Winchester, and Margaret Molyneaux, elder daughter of the late Mr. R. Vernon Favell and Mrs. Favell of Penberth, St. Buryan, Cornwall. …

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Referenced

GRO0525 Devonport: John Laurence Pinsent: 1916 – 2014
GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969
GRO1374 Devonport: Margaret Molyneux Favell: 1918 – 2010

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 9th September 1939

Blind Persons Refuge: Many blind persons and their guides and helpers have been provided with homes in the Winchester area, where also are many children who have been evacuated from other districts. A tribunal, to be selected from Councillor H. Bristow (chairman), Councillor C. H. Bones, Mr. W. G. Millard, Mr. F. Warren, Mrs. Pinsent and Mrs. David, are to deal with any cases of difficulty arising from the billeting of children in the city. …

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Referenced

GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969

Buckinghamshire Advertiser: Friday 5th May 1939

Marriage of Miss Heather Eddis: Ceremony at Chalfont St. Peter. The marriage of Captain George Stuart Knox, Royal Signals and Miss Heather Lindsay Eddis, second daughter of Colonel B. L. Eddis and Mrs. Eddis, of Brereton, Gerrards Cross took place on Saturday at St. Peter’s Church Chalfont St. Peter. … Presents … Major and Mrs. R. Pinsent, (sic) three-sided mirror in gold frame …

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969 (?)

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 30th October 1937

Schools’ Place in Community: Adaption as Social Centre: County Teachers Conference: “The School and the Community” was the topic of a conference organized by the Hampshire Teachers’ Association (N.U.T.) and held at Winchester on Saturday Mr. A. H. Whipple, director of Education for the City of Nottingham described how he was providing for the social and education needs of new housing estates, and the rural problem was dealt with by Mr. J. O. Milner, warden of the Sawton Village College, Cambridgeshire. Miss Brock, (county president) was in the chair at the delegates’ luncheon at the Guildhall, which was attended by the Mayor of Winchester (Councillor Major J. R. Pinsent, who is also chairman of the City Education Committee, and the Mayoress (Mrs. Pinsent). Others at the luncheon were …

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 19th June 1937

French Officers Sight-Seeing in Southampton: … … At Winchester: Six of the French officers were welcomed by the Mayor and Mayoress (Councillor Major and Mrs. Pinsent) at Winchester, on Tuesday. They were headed by Vice-Admiral Mornet, C.B., who in 1921 became chairman of a technical committee under the French Ministry of Marine. Councillor Pinsent spoke first in French, extending a cordial welcome to their old allies …

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969

Hampshire Telegraph: Friday 15th January 1937

Ball for County Hospital: Winchester Success: Cabaret Performance a New Feature: The Hampshire County ball was held at the Guildhall, Winchester, on Friday night, in aid of the Royal Hants. County Hospital, Jack Jackson’s band played, and at midnight a cabaret performance was given by Norman Long, Ronnie Bowyer and Jeane Ravel. This was a new feature. The Committee responsible for the arrangements were as follows: Brig.-Gen., B. J. Majendie (Chairman), Mr. S. Bostock, Col. J. A. Butchart, … includes … the Mayor of Winchester (Major J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O.)  … … (description of event) … …   Others Present: Others who took tickets, many of whom brought parties, were: – The Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester (Major J. R. and Mrs. Pinsent), the Countess of Northbrook (Chairman of the Court of Governors of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital) and party, … (continues) …

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 9th January 1937

Easthleigh Civic Festivity: Anticipation of Better Times: dinner and Ball: Eastleigh’s first civic dinner and ball, held at the Town Hall on Monday night, was the first since the town’s incorporation, and attendance was about double that at last year’s dinner of the Urban Council. They Mayor (Councillor T. W. Coles) presided. He was accompanied by the Mayoress, and supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester (Major and Mrs. J. R. Pinsent) the Deputy Mayor of Southampton … (continues) …

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1108 Devonport: Kathleen Jane Macpherson: 1895 – 1974

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 2nd January 1937

Home of Recovery: Patients’ share in Joyous Festival: Many visitors went to the Hampshire Home of Recovery, at Upper Bassett, Southampton, where, with a special programme for the patients and the wards all gaily decorated there was a very Christmassy atmosphere … During the day the visitors included the Mayor of Southampton (Alderman H. Chick), the Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester, (Major J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O., and Mrs. Pinsent), the sheriff of Southampton … (continues) … 

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969

Portsmouth Evening News: Saturday 26th December 1936

Winchester: Mayor and Mayoress’s Big Party: The Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester, Major and Mrs. Pinsent, organized a party for 1,200 elementary school children. The Odeon Theatre and the staff put on a special cinema show. The Mayoress gave 95 dozen packets of chocolate, and the mayor gave 1,600 new three penny pieces for the younger children who could not be got into the Theatre. When the Mayor wished the children a happy Christmas and expressed the hope that they would have plenty of good things to eat, but would not eat too much at one time, he was met with the reply by 1,200 voices in unison, “And the same to you!”

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Referenced

GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969