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Birmingham Cathedral Tower Restoration Fund: … List of donations Already Promised … (list includes) … Pinsent, R. A. – £10 0s 0d; Pinsent Roy – £2 2s 0d. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Cricket: Bovey 2nd XI v. Chudleigh 2nd XI: Played at Bovey Tracey on Saturday last, and ended in a victory for the visitors, who played short by 24 runs: Score: Bovey 2nd XI: … Total 26: … includes W. Pinsent c and b. Pinsent 0 (Pinsent took two wickets): Chudleigh 2nd XI: … Total 50: … includes A. Pinsent c. Pinsent b. Waldron 0 …
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GRO0015 Bristol: Albert John Pinsent: 1882 – 1928
GRO0869 Bristol: Wallace Pinsent: 1877 – 1955
The Nation’s Mourning: Remarkable Scenes in Birmingham: Memorial Services: Civic Procession to the Parish Church: The day of general mourning ordered by the Privy Council was solemnly observed throughout the country yesterday. All shops were closed, and business of every kind was suspended, while memorial services were held in the places of worship of all denominations … … Among those invited to be present at the civic memorial service were the following … (long list of invitations includes) … Birmingham Law society: – Messrs. J. G. Bradbury (president), J. Hargreave (vice-president), Charles Ekin (hon. secretary), Walter Barrow, R. A. Pinsent, M. N. Phelps, J. A. Marigold, W. M. Smythe, E. Evershed, A. H. Coley, H. B. Carslake, A. S. Bennett, J. Moore-Bayley, D. Cochrane, F. S. Pearson, A. L. Lowe, Philip Baker, F. A. Chatwin, J. Sutton Sharpe, (West Bromwich), A. H. Lewis (Walsall).
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Unfit Parents: Sheffield Lecture on the Care of Defectives: Breeding Criminals: The appalling folly and social tragedy of England’s neglect of the feeble-minded was strikingly illustrated in a lectured delivered in Sheffield last night by Mrs. Hume Pinsent of Birmingham. Her subject was the “Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.” The most instructive part of the lecture and certainly the most convincing was furnished by a series of diagrams which succinctly illustrated the consequences of defectives becoming parents. Mrs. Pinsent, who was a member of the Commission named sought to emphasize the growing conviction that the root of many of the difficulties social workers and public authorities have to deal with is the disconnected and incomplete powers for dealing with feeble-minded persons … continues at length … Mrs. Pinsent strongly advocated the creation of one central authority, vested with powers of compulsory detention, to deal solely with defectives so that unity and continuity of control, as compared with the present chaotic system might be exercised over them from the cradle to the grave, if necessary. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949