Ellen Pinsent
Chivalric Order Member
1866 – 1949
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Who was Ellen Pinsent?
Dame Ellen Frances Pinsent DBE, née Parker, was a British mental health worker.
She was the daughter of the Rev. Richard Parker and his second wife, Elizabeth Coffin. She married Hume Chancellor Pinsent, a relative of the philosopher David Hume, and they had three children. Their two sons, David Hume Pinsent and Richard Parker Pinsent, were killed in the First World War, and their daughter, Dame Hester Adrian, married the Nobel-prize winner Edgar Douglas Adrian, a peer.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1866
Claxby by Normanby - Children
- Lived in
- Birmingham
- Died
- 1949
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on July 23, 2013
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