Tag: Hampshire Advertiser

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 10th April 1937

Hockley Club: J. L. Pinsent won the Hockley Gold Club’s Tank Cup after a tie, by five and four. The leading scores in the competition, for which there were 36 entries, were: J. L. Pinsent, 75 (9) 66; Comdr. T. Harland, 80 (14) 66; C. G. Murray, 73 (4) 69; … (continues) …

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GRO0525 Devonport: John Laurence Pinsent: 1916 – 2014

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 13th March 1937

Coronation Visitors: Hampshire Offers of Hospitality: That a big influx of visitors from overseas may be expected in Hampshire for the Coronation celebrations was stated at the annual meeting of the Winchester, Hampshire, and Isle of Wight branch of the English-Speaking Union, held at Winchester city Guildhall. “We, in Winchester,” said the mayor (Councillor J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O.) “are in an amazingly good position for visitors. We are in the South, between the port of arrival and London and we possess a city unique in the attractions it has to offer. I feel we ought to take advantage to get down to something a little beyond talking and to act by offering hospitality this summer as widely as we possibly can.” … (continues) …

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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 3rd October 1936

Winchester’s Next Mayor: Councillor Major James Ryland Pinsent, D.S.0., (sic) has been selected as the next Mayor of Winchester. He is under 50. Born at Birmingham. he is the son of Mr. R. A. Pinsent, a former president of the Law Society. In 1915 he married Kathleen, the daughter of Col. E. G. Boyce, R.E. They have two sons. He has been a member of the City Council since 1931, is a member of the College staff, and prominent in the Boy Scout movement. The present Mayor (Councillor A. T. Edmonds) is retiring from the Council.

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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 15th August 1936

Mayoral Expenses: Winchester Refuses an Allowance: Councillor Sankey proposed at a meeting of Winchester city Council a motion that the mayor should be allowed up to £250 a year for expenses. He said that as things were at present, he was deprived of the Mayoralty, and he knew other members who could not afford to take it on. Many ex-Mayors had moaned about the expense. … … (discussion) … … Councillor Major Pinsent: The Mayor should be allowed sufficient to cover official entertaining. The motion was defeated by 12 votes to seven.

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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957

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

Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 11th September 1937

New Hampshire Golf Course: Eighteen Holes at Worthy Down: Worthy down Aerodrome has its own 18-hole golf course. It was officially opened by Air Commodore C. H. B. Blount, O.B.E., M.C. (Senior Air Staff Officer, No. 2 Group) … … Four four-ball matches were then played over the new course. The first two pairs away were Air Commodore Blount and Squadron Leader C. H. Hayward … who were opposed to the Mayor of Winchester (Councillor Mayor J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O.) and his son, Mr. J. L. Pinsent. After a very close game, air-Commodore Blount and Squadron Leader Hayward won by 2 and 1. … (continues) …

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GRO0525 Devonport: John Laurence Pinsent: 1916 – 2014
GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957

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