Tag: Leamington Spa Courier

Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 13th January 1894

Valuable Licensed Property with Possession: The “George in the Tree”, Berkswell and other adjoining properties: Messrs. Gray and Walker have instructions to sell by auction on Monday January 29th, 1894, at the Grant Hotel, Colmore Row, at seven o’clock, prompt in the evening the following Properties: Lot 1 The very valuable freehold property situate at Balsall Berkswell, on the main road from Stonebridge to Kenilworth, and well known as the “George in the Tree”. This house has been, and must continue to be the favoured place of call for all road traffic, and especially cyclists, being four miles from Stonebridge, six miles from Coventry, six miles from Kenilsworth and within very easy distances of Temple Balsall, Knowle, Solihull and other centres … Lot 2, Two cottages adjoining Lot 1 … For particulars as to Lot 1 and 2, apply to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, 39 Waterloo Street …

[see also Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 27th January 1894]

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Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 13th January 1894

Extraordinary Case at the Milverton Police Court: At the sitting of the Magistrates for the Kenilworth Division on Wednesday morning, at the Milverton Police court: Present Mr. Stanger Leathes (in the Chair) General Radcliffe, Majors Molyneux, Spooner and Gibsons and Dr. Thursdfield: a most extraordinary case came on for hearing. George William Prescott, of Birmingham, summoned his son, Henry, for having on the June 6th, 1891, unlawfully, knowingly and willfully inserted a certain false entry in the register of marriages, by having signed his name as Henry Walker on the occasion of his marriage with Emily Florence Hands, at the Parish Church of Kenilworth. Complainant conducted his case in person, but the defendant was represented by Mr. Hugo Young (instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co, Birmingham) …. (discussion of case) ….. Mr. Young called Richard Alfred Pinsent, of the firm of Smith, Pinsent and Co., solicitors, Waterloo Street Birmingham, who stated that he had known the defendant and his mother for between 12 and 15 years. He was told that he was the son of Mr. Prescott, late solicitor of Stourbridge. The defendant was articled in the name of Henry Prescott Walker to Mr. Mayo, an accountant, of Birmingham. Defendant was known among his friends, fellow clerks and at his club by the name of Walker. The witness also produced a deed poll in which the defendant assumed the name of Walker. Complainant: Was it your firm who induced this young man to commit this fraud? Witness asked the Magistrates if that was a proper question? Mr. Stranger Leathes: The question is distinctly improper. There has been on fraud proved as yet. …  …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 22nd November 1890

Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 to 1890: Royal Leamington Spa Electric Light and Power: Confirmation of existing, and grant of further powers to the Midland Electric Light and Power company Limited, to supply electricity for all public and private purposes in the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa, I the County of Warwick … (long discussion) … Dated this 22nd day of November 1890: Smith, Pinsent and Co., 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, Solicitors for the applicants, and proposed undertakers.

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Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 19th July 1890

Applications for Provisional Electric Lighting Orders: The Town Clerk said he had received three notices from companies who proposed to make an application to the Board of Trade for Provisional Orders for authorising the supply of electricity to the borough. …  … The Town Clerk said that Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., of Waterloo Street, Birmingham, the solicitors to Messrs. Chamberlain and Hookham, has also written to him notifying them of their intention to make the application …

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Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 26th April 1890

Magazines for April: [second notice]: Nineteenth Century … The Hon. Justice Pinsent has an article on “The French Fishery claims in Newfoundland,” and writes informingly upon the unromantic and unsentimental question whether the French people have a right to fish for lobsters in the seas and upon the shores of a great part of Newfoundland, and whether, if they have, they may exclude British subjects from participation in the same business. This is, at least, the last phase of the vexed controversy regarding the construction of certain ancient treaties between England and France. …

[see similar Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 12th April 1890 and others]

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893 

Leamington Spar Courier: Saturday 21st February 1880

The Leamington & Warwick Tramways & Omnibus Company (Limited): Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862, 1867 and 1877, whereby the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares … Capital £25,000 in 2, 500 shares of £10. … Solicitors: Barlow, Smith and Pinsent, 39 Waterloo Street Birmingham:

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Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 21st December 1878

To Be Sold: … Pursuant to an Order of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, made in a matter of settled estates of Miles Berry, deceased, with the approbation of the Master of the Rolls, in two lots, by Mr. Septimus Perry Graves, the person appointed by the said Judge, at the Blue Pig Inn, at Southam, in the County of Warwick, on Wednesday the 1st day of January 1879, at four o’clock in the afternoon precisely: Lot 1, Comprising eight freehold cottages situate in Stockton, in the County of Warwick, standing on about six chains of land: Lot 2-3, Freehold cottages, situate at Long Itchington, in the same County, now in the respective occupations of Messrs. C. Berry, Haynes, Wood, E. Berry, C. Barratt, G. May, Bradshaw, Finch, Cave, Seaton and Russell. Particulars whereof may be had, gratis, of Mr. F. R. Welchman, Solicitor, Southam, Warwickshire; Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent, Solicitors, Birmingham; in London of Messrs. Field, Roscoe and Co, Solicitors, 36 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and Messrs. Bower and Cotton, Solicitors, 46 Chancery Lane, W.C., of the Auctioneer, at Southam aforesaid, and at the place of sale: Dated this 29th day of November 1878: C. Burney, Chief Clerk.

[see also Leamington Spar Courier: Saturday 28th December 1878]

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