Western Daily Mercury: Wednesday 27th April 1864 

Royal Naval and Military Free School: Devonport: At the annual general meeting of the friends and subscribers of this institution, held in the school room, King Street, on Tuesday the 26th instant, Charles Row, Esq., Mayor of Devonport in the chair, the following report and resolutions were unanimously adopted. … Report … (description of school) … Your committee have therefore drawn up an appeal to the generosity of the public to remedy this deficiency, which of all other sources, they desire to see increased rather than diminished. They have to lament the loss the institution has sustained during the last year of three of its principal and much respected supporters and annual subscribers, the late Admiral W. B. Mends, Col. Harris, of Mount Radford, and Rd. Pinsent, Esq., … … 


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Referenced

GRO0741 Devonport: Richard Steele Pinsent: 1820 – 1864