Tag: Morning Herald (London)

Morning Herald (London): Monday 19th July 1869

Court of Probate and Divorce: July 15, 16 and 17 (Before Lord Penzance and Special Juries) …  PINSENT V. PINSENT AND MESHAM: This was the husband’s petition for a divorce on the ground of his wife’s adultery with the co-respondent. He also sought damages against the latter. The respondent did not answer nor appear, but the co-respondent answered, and traversed the adultery. Dr. Spinks Q.C., and Dr. Swabey was counsel for the petitioner, and Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Middleton appeared for the co-respondent. The petitioner is a barrister and Queen’s counsel, practising in the Supreme Courts of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of that island. He was married to the respondent at Newfoundland on the 28th of April 1856, and there are eight children the issue of the marriage. They were stated to have lived in great comfort and happiness up to December 1867, when the respondent left for England with two of the children to have them placed in school. The co-respondent was an officer in the Newfoundland army. He was also aide de camp and private secretary to the governor, and on intimate terms with the petitioner and his wife. He left St. John’s on a visit of inspection with the governor in October 1867, and was absent when the respondent left for England in the December following. On the respondent’s arrival in England, she went into lodging in a house in Tavistock Street, Bedford Square. The day after her arrival a gentleman called at the house who turned out to be the co-respondent and took a bedroom in the same house. Two days after the respondent left with him and was away a day or two. She, however, returned and took the children to Bristol, where she placed them at school On the 1st of February following the respondent and co-respondent were found sleeping in the same bedroom at the Royal Hotel Weymouth, where they remained to the 3rd. The afterwards went into lodging at Weymouth, where they lived as man and wife. Soon after that they went to Southampton and ultimately to the Cape of Good Hope.  Evidence was adduced which clearly proved the adultery, after which the Jury gave a verdict for petitioner, with damages against the co-respondent to the amount of £3,000. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Morning Herald (London): Thursday 15th July 1869

Divorce Court, Westminster: At 11: Before Lord Penzance: Special Juries: Finney v. Finney, part heard: Senior v. Senior; Pinsent v. Pinsent and Mesham; Webber v. Webber. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893

Morning Herald (London): Tuesday 8th December 1868

VICE-CHANCELLORS’ COURTs, LINCOLN’S INN: Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. Malins, For Judgment: … (list includes) … Pinsent v. Vestry of Kingsteignton … 

[see also Morning Herald (London): Wednesday 9th December 1868 & 18th January 1869; Monday 22nd February 1869, Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th February 1869] 

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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872

Morning Herald (London): Thursday 11th June 1868

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT: HOUSE OF COMMONS: (Wednesday): The Speaker took the chair at 12: Petitions: The following petitions were presented: … (list) … also from Mr. Savery Pinsent of D’ Urban, in the Colony of Natal, advocate, praying that a dispatch from the Secretary to the Colonies to the lieutenant governor of Natal, dated 13th January 1868, may be recalled, and that the orders contained in such dispatch may be cancelled.  

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GRO0798 Devonport: Savery Pinsent: 1815 – 1886

Morning Herald (London): Tuesday 9th June 1868

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE: BEFORE THE RIGHT HON. SIR J. P. WILDE: The Judge will sit In Chambers at 11, and in Court for Motions at 12. Motions (Court of Probate): In re: … (list includes) … Pinsent v. Pinsent and Mepham (sic) … 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893
GRO0062 Hennock: Anna Brown Cooke: 1837 – 1882

Morning Herald (London): Wednesday 2nd September 1863

THE SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN IN HOXTON: On Monday Mr. J. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Bell Tavern Felton-terrace Heaton, respecting the death of Mr. Charles Pincent, aged 50, who committed suicide on Saturday last. — John Goodrich said that on Saturday afternoon he was called by Mrs. Pincent and he broke in the door of the deceased’s room at 15, Little Norris-street. He found the deceased hanging by a rope to the bedpost. — Mrs. Georgina Pincent, 15, Little Norris-street, said that she had been living apart from the deceased since last Tuesday, on account of some difference. Deceased had often threatened to destroy himself and the witness also. He used to say: “That the Regent’s Canal would be his bed,” unless his circumstances mended. He was a cheesemonger. She returned to the house at two o’clock on Saturday, and finding the door fastened she called in the last witness. Another witness proved that he had stated to his son, “That he should not live till night,” and that he had frequently tried to destroy himself. The Jury returned a verdict of “Suicide while of unsound mind.” – 

(Orr’s Kentish Journal: Saturday 5th September 1863 and Dial: Saturday 5th September 1863) 

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GRO0127 Devonport: Charles Pinsent: 1812 – 1863

Morning Herald (London): Friday 27th February 1863

The Levee: The following presentations at the Levee on Wednesday took place, the names having been previously left at the Lord Chamberlain’s Office and submitted for Her Majesty’s Approval: … (includes) … Hon. R. J. Pinsent, Member of Legislative Council, Newfoundland, by the Duke of Newcastle. 

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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893

Morning Herald (London): Wednesday 27th July 1859

ELECTION COMMITTEES: ASHBURTON: The committee nominated to report upon the late return for the borough of Ashburton met yesterday for the first time, and consisted of Mr. E. P. Bouverie (chairman), Mr. Knightley, Mr. R. B. Sheridan, Mr. R. M. Bellew, and Mr. Greenall. Counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Phinn, Q.C., Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Wray. For the sitting member, Mr. Slade, Q.C., Mr. W. H. Cooke, and Mr. Bentinck. _ The petitioners were Brooking Soady, of Woodland, in the county of Devon, gentleman; and Thomas Pinsent, of Kingsteignton, in the said county of Devon, gentleman. The allegations set forth that at the last election of a member for the borough of Ashburton, in the county of Devon, the petitioners were registered electors of the said borough and had a right to vote at the said election and did vote there at. That, at the said election, John Harvey Astell, Esq., and George Moffatt, Esq., were the candidates. That the nominations took place on the 29th of April last, and the polling on the following day, and at the close of the poll the said John Harvey Astell, Esq., was declared to be duly elected, and was accordingly returned as member for the said borough. The petition further alleged bribery, treating, and undue influence on the part of the sitting member, by himself and his agents. … (discussion of evidence) …

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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872

Morning Herald (London): Tuesday 21st June 1859

Election Petitions: … … Ashburton: Petitioners, Mr. Brooking Soadey and Mr. T. Pinsent … 

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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872

Morning Herald (London): Tuesday 8th February 1859 

PRIZES FOR RIFLE SHOOTING: —The following non-commissioned officers and privates at Chatham have received prizes for their rifle shooting. Private T. Pincent, 32nd, is considered to be the best shot in the garrison; he obtained 13 points, the firing being from 600 to 900 yards, and he obtained the first prize; Serjeant Hoddir, 94th, gained a first prize. Serjeant Laverock, 42nd, and Serjeant Pennington, 19th, each obtained second prize. Corporal Marchant, 35th, a third prize, Serjeant Furlong, 24th; Corporal Dyson, 7th; Privates Alland, 35th; Cook, 75th; Page, 84th; and White, 94th, obtained the fourth prize. 

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GRO0834 Bristol: Thomas Pinsent: 1834 – 1917