Tag: Western Evening Herald

Western Evening Herald: Tuesday 8th April 1902

Another Plymouth Cure: “I have lived at my present address for twenty-six years,” writes Mr. S. Pinsent of 31 Morley Place, Plymouth: “and needless to say, I am well known in the town.” “For many years I suffered from Sciatica; I cannot describe the agony I underwent from this fearful malady … …” … (continues as shown in other newspapers) …

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GRO0775 Bovey Tracey: Samuel Pinsent: 1839 – 1912

Western Evening Herald: Tuesday 17th July 1923

Early Morning Noises: Sir, – Reading in Friday night’s paper of a noisy motor-bicycle has prompted me to air a grievance of much the same sort. Every morning regularly at 6 o’clock two Corporation ‘buses stop outside 64 Salisbury road snorting, chuffing, changing gears, etc. The noise is terrible. It wakes my whole household. We can sleep through a thunderstorm, but not the noise of those buses: S. Pinsent, 64 Salisbury Road.

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GRO0778 Bovey Tracey: Samuel George Caleb Pinsent: 1875 – 19511)

Western Evening Herald: Saturday 15th September 1923

Plymouth Rents Tribunal: … the Tribunal members were Colonel Seymour Williams, Sir John Heary, and Mr. J. Bond, who were accompanied on their tour of inspection by the Town Clerk (Mr. R. J. Pittall), the borough Surveyor (Mr. J. Wibberley), Mr. R. B. Barker (housing director), Alderman J. P. Brown (chairman) and Mr. J. Churchward (representing the Housing Committee) and Messrs. A. Warren and E. J. Reeby (representing tenant’s associations). At the inquiry, which opened at noon, there were present, in addition to those named, the mayor (Mr. Solomon Stephens), Alderman J. J. H. Moses, Mr. S. C. Alford (representing the Ministry of Health), and Mr. F. W. H. Pinsent (district valuer). Dockyard Employment Figures: Opening the case for the Corporation, the Town Clerk gave details of the rents charted for the different types of houses on the three estates, which he pointed out, were those proposed by the Ministry, namely 10s, 10s 3d, 12s 3d, and 14s 6d. the chief industries in the borough, he pointed out, were the Dockyard and the naval and military establishments. Before the war about 12,000 persons were employed in the Dockyard. During the war the number rose to 25,000, and at present it was down to practically the pre-war figure. Consequently, there was a large amount of unemployment in the town … … (long discussion) … …

On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Mr. Alford called Mr. Pinsent, who dissented from the figures submitted by the Tenant’ Association as the average pre-war rents for comparable houses in the Mount Gold District. His average was £23 10s, as against their £21 14s, and others ere in similar proportion. He considered the present rentals of the Council houses were justified by comparison with those of other houses in the locality … (continues) …

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GRO0322 Hennock: Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent: 1875 – 1948

Western Evening Herald: Monday 22nd January 1923

Money and Clothing: A Dire Necessity: A glance at the 204th Subscription List published below will show how small has been the amount received since Wednesday last, when the 203rd List was made up … … Gifts of clothing have been received from the following: … (list includes) … Mrs. Pinsent, Horrabridge …

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GRO0473 Hennock: Janet Frances Cowtan: 1878 – 1938

Western Evening Herald: Tuesday 2nd November 1909

Plymouth is to have the opportunity to hear another Royal Commissioner on another of the great problems which face us — that of the care and control of the feeble-minded. A Poor Law Commissioner discussed his subject a few weeks ago. Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who was a member of the Royal Commission on the Feeble-Minded, will speak here at the Western Law Courts on Friday afternoon next at 5 o’clock, when she will have a larger audience than that which came to hear Mr. Hancock Nunn. The meeting has been convened by the mayor.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Western Evening Herald: Monday 26th July 1909

Evidence from Plymouth … Over 6 years after his cure, Mr. S. Pinsent, 31, Morley Place Plymouth said: – “Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills cured me, to stay cured; they restored my health permanently.” … (continues in same manner) …

[see similar Western Evening Herald: Friday 30th July 1909 and Western Evening Herald: Friday 8th October 1909: also Friday 3rd March 1911]

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GRO0775 Bovey Tracey: Samuel Pinsent: 1839 – 1912

Western Evening Herald: Friday 11th October 1901

The Priest and the Nun: Some time ago we gave some extracts from a letter to “The Times” by the Abbess of the ladies who had been evicted from their convert in Rome. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton wrote a reply in which he acknowledges that the main facts of the story of the priest and the nun were true. But he championed the subsequent action of the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome, and added that Miss Pynsent, the Abbess, was not a Christian, but an Agnostic. Rome: Yesterday Miss Pynsent replied in “The Times” she admits the charge of Agnosticism this Bishop made against her. She declares that it could not has, been the cause of the attitude of the Vatican and the Inquisition towards the sisterhood, for they did not know it and even several of the nuns who remain around her did not learn it until they read the Bishop’s letter. Miss Pynsent had desired to conceal her change of view from the world until she had secured some help for these survivors of the wreck but now that the Bishop has made the public charge, she says boldly that “When sad experience convinced me that injustice and immorality are, in Rome the rule rather than the exception, and that the Church instead of being a purely spiritual organization is practically a huge political machine worked for mundane ends by worldly-minded men, l lost the belief which I had cherished during 26 unhesitating years of Catholic life.” 

No Punishment for the Priest: With regard to the elopement of wealthy nun with a priest, Miss Pynsent thinks perhaps “fellow culprit” would better describe her than the term “Poor victim.” which the Bishop of Clifton had used, and she complains that the guilty priest, whom the Bishop righty called a “scoundrel, “has received no punishment beyond that of being sent for an eight day’s retreat to the country house, of the religious congregation to which he belongs. He has continued his usual work in Rome and has during the annual octave of the Epiphany at Sant Andrea della Valle been the soul of the services conducted there according to the service rites.

Another Charge: The Bishop suggested laxity by the Abbess was responsible for the erring sister’s conduct and said that he heard criticisms in 1896 as to the way in which the Benedictine nuns were allowed to go about in public. Miss Proem retorts: —”It is to be regretted that the hundreds of nuns walking about the principal streets of Rome to-day in a manner unworthy of a religious habit, are not obliged to observe the caution and modesty practiced by the English Benedictines. Although the letter had only a terrace on which to take exercise they never went into the streets of Rome on foot.”

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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934