Tag: July 1920

Gloucestershire Echo: Thursday 28th July 1920

The Late Mrs. Margaret Willoughby: Our obituary column on Monday contained a notice of the passing at Courtfield, Charlton Kings, of Mars. Margaret Jane Willoughby, widow of Capt. C. C. Willoughby, 60th Rifles, who died some sixteen years ago … (continues) … (list of mourners contains Willoughby, Reynolds and Rawlins relations and also) … R. B. Pynsent (cousin) …  [note no Devonport Pinsents]

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Referenced

GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953

Westminster Gazette: Thursday 8th July 1920

Baldwins: The seventeenth annual ordinary general meeting of the members of Baldwins Limited was held yesterday, the chairman (Colonel Sir John Roper Wright, Bart.) presiding. The Chairman said:  Your board much regret the delay in presenting the accounts of the year ending June 30, 1919, which has been due to the difficulties in connection with excess profits and the pressure on our professional valuers. … (continues) … The Chairman then dwelt at some length with the offer made to shareholders by Messrs. Sperling. In reply to questions, Mr. Pinsent, the solicitor for the company, stated that neither he nor anyone else connected with negotiations from the early date in February to the end ever regarded Sperlings as other than principals … (continues) …

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Referenced

GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Evening Despatch: Wednesday 7th July 1920

Baldwins Enter Law Action: Chairman’s Statement on Messrs. Sperling: Advice to Shareholders: Shareholders in Baldwin’s Ltd., attended the annual meeting of that company at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham today in great force interest centering in the Chairman’s promise to put them in possession of the latest information concerning the actions pending regarding the contract entered into in February last by Messrs. Sperling to purchase the ordinary shares of the company at 60s per share … (discussion) … In response to the Chairman’s invitation only three shareholders asked questions, and these were of a friendly nature. Replying to these, Mr. Pinsent (Birmingham) solicitor to the company, said that the directors had never regarded Messrs. Sperling otherwise than as principals …

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Referenced

GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948