Children of Emma and Thomas Pumphrey

MARRIAGE AT THE FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE.—On Wednesday last, in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends, a marriage was solemnised at the Friends' Meeting House, Queen's Road, between Thomas Walter Pumphrey, Summer Hill Grove, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Emily Knight, daughter of Joseph Harrison Knight, of Leeds. Pray having been offered, the contracting parties made the usual declaration, after which Mr John Stansfield, registering officer, read the certificate of marriage. The certificate having been signed and witnessed, addresses were delivered by Mr. Thomas Pumphrey and Mr. John Stansfield, and Mrs. Richardson. After the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party partook of breakfast at the Wells House. The bride wore a dress of pale primrose, and carried a bouquet of white flowers. The bride and bridegroom left during the afternoon for the south of England en route for the Channel Islands, where they intend spending the honeymoon.

Ernest Jarrell, apprentice fitter and turner, employed at Messrs Head, Wrightson, and Company's works, who applied for exemption, said he was not prepared join a fighting force, but would give his services to the Friends’ Ambulance Corps.

Mr T.W. Pumphrey said the Friends Ambulance Corps was willing to take him, but his employers declined to release him, as he was necessary for their output.

Applicant was recommended for non-combatant service.

Mr. Thomas Walter Pumphrey (68), of Preston Patrick Hall, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, farmer, for over 30 years senior partner of Messrs. W. and M. Pumphrey, sugar millers, Thornaby-on-Tees (net personalty £8,506) ........... £23,893

LOCH NESS.—GLENMORISTON.—From the Invermoriston Hotel on the 23d, Mr Bernard Pumphrey, Newcastle, had a salmon of 23½ lb. [ . . . ]

LOCH NESS.—GLENMORISTON.—From the Invermoriston Hotel on 29th, Mr Bernard Pumphrey, Newcastle-on-Tyne, had one salmon of 23 lb. [ . . . ]

LOCH NESS.—GLENMORISTON.—On 7th, Mr Bernard Pumphrey, Newcastle-on-Tyne, one salmon, 27 lb. [ . . . ]

THE ORTHOPÆDIC hOSPITAL.

The claims of the proposed Orthopædic Hospital in Newcastle received useful advocacy yesterday afternoon at the hands of Mr. Bernard Pumphrey at the weekly meeting of the local Rotarians. He spoke not as an expert in orthopædic surgery, of course, but as an interested layman eager to make known the good object and to urge for it increasing support. [ . . . ]

Mr. Pumphrey traversed his subject with illuminating maps, and all the illustrative apparatus that pertains to the making of a good cup of coffee, and to further warm the attention of his listeners, he dispensed hospitable samples of the beverage.

A DANGER CHARGE DISMISSED AT HACKTHORPE.

Yesterday at Hackthorpe Police Court, before Messrs. Torbock (in the chair), Markham, Todd, and Turner, Bernard Pumphrey, Osborne Road, Newcastle, was charged with driving a motor car to the danger of the public on November 25th. Mr. T.S. Strong, Carlisle, defended.—William Wallace, Askham, carter for the Earl of Lonsdale, said at 11·30 he was going from the station to Lowther with a load of coals, and when 50 yards from the cross roads noticed a car coming from Lowther Village and turning into the Penrith road. A motor car, driven by defendant, came along from the direction of Shap, and cut between witness's cart and the other car. The car hit the offside wheel of the cart, broke the shafts, and spun the cart into the ditch. Witness was close in his near side. He denied that the car from Lowther came out in the centre of the road.—Joseph Carlton, Penrith, the drive of the car from Lowther, said he sounded his horn and came slowly round on his near side. Then he heard the screech of brakes and a crash. He denied that he swerved his car into the middle of the road.—Joseph Wood, farmer, Selside, who was in defendant's car, said when defendant saw the other car he put on his brakes, but the car skidded on the slippery road. To avoid the cart in front defendant turned to his right and then slightly to his left.—P.C. Stamper produced a sketch of the place. Defendant's car had been only 6¼ feet from his right-hand side of the road. Defendant said he saw the cart and slowed down to 20 to 25 miles and hour. He turned slightly to the right, and applied both brakes, but they locked the wheels, causing them to skid.—Similar evidence was given by William King, a passenger in defendant's car, and the case was dismissed.

Presiding at the annual meeting of the Newcastle Dispensary yesterday, Mr Bernard Pumphrey said that during the past two years mortality from measles in Newcastle had remained at zero. Medical science had overcome measles.

LOCH NESS.—Fishing from Glenmoriston, on 1st inst., Mr Bernard Pumphrey, Newcastle-on-Tyne, had one salmon, 10 lb.

DIRECTOR OF CITY FIRM DEAD.

MR. B. PUMPHREY’S WORK FOR CHARITY.

Mr, Bernard Pumphrey (65), of 115, Osborne Road, Jesmond, a director of Messrs. Pumphrey and Carrick Watson, Ltd., the Newcastle firm of grocers, died yesterday afternoon. A native of Newcastle, he was the son of the late Thomas Pumphrey, and it is 20 years since the firm of Thomas Pumphrey and Son of the Cloth Market amalgamated with T. Carrick Watson of Blackett Street.

Mr. Pumphrey was educated at the Bootham School, York. In addition to his business activities he engaged in considerable social and charitable work in the city. For several years he was chairman of the Newcastle Dispensary, and was keenly interested in the Proctor Memorial Home at Shotley Bridge.

He was a founder member of the Newcastle Rotary Club, and a director of the Northern Guild of Commerce, and it was a poignant coincident that his death should occur almost simultaneously with the annual meeting of the guild.

LOSS TO Y.M.C.A.

Mr. Pumphrey was vice-president of Y.M.C.A. in the city and lent his willing help to any charitable object. He was chairman of the Jesmond Lawn Tennis Club, in which he took a great interest and was first treasurer of the club, and a member of the Society of Friends.

He is survived by a widow, one son, Mr. Owen N. Pumphrey, a director of the firm, and two daughters.

The funeral, the date of which has not been definitely fixed, will be at Jesmond Old Cemetery.

We know [ . . . ] That the North has lost a well-known philanthropist by the death of Mr. Bernard Pumphrey, of Newcastle.

That in addition to his many business activities he engaged in considerable social and charitable work in the district.

That he was one of the founders of the Newcastle Rotary Club, and one of the principals of the Y.M.C.A. movement.

QUAKER BURIAL AT JESMOND.

CITY TRIBUTES TO MR. B. PUMPHREY.

ROTARIANS ATTEND.

All the simplicity of the Quaker burial service was observed at the interment of Mr. Bernard Pumphrey, a well-known local Quaker and director of Messrs. Pumphrey and Carrick Watson, Ltd., Newcastle, at Jesmond Old Cemetery yesterday.

Mr. Charles J. Dymond read the burial service and Mr. Angus Watson and Mr. Herbert Corder gave short addresses upon the life and work of Mr. Pumphrey.

"We rejoice for the fine tradition he created for himself in his business which he inherited from his father and has passed on to his son," said Mr. Angus Watson, "and we rejoice in the good work that he has done for the City."

FAMILY MOURNERS.

The family mourners were :—Mr. Owen N. Pumphrey (son), Mr. and Mrs. Martyn Pumphrey (brother and sister-in-law), Miss E. L. Pumphrey (sister), Mr. William A. Nesbit, Mr. Robert A. Gibson, Mr Percy Oscroft, Rev. W. Gibson Smith (brothers-in-law), Mrs. W. Gibson Smith, Mrs. Thorburn.

Messrs. Roland Pumphrey, Thomas Pumphrey, Howard M. Thorburn, W. Douglas Thorburn, Cecil J. Francis (nephews), Mr. and Mrs. H. Bowman Watson, Miss C. Watson, Miss L. Watson, Dr lan E. McCracken (friends).

Owing to illness Mr. and Mrs. T. Walter Pumphrey and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Pumphrey were unable to attend.

Members of the Newcastle Rotary Club present included: Messrs. Hugh E. Galloway (past president and vice-president R.I.BI), Maj.-Gen. Sir R. A. K. Montgomery, R.F. Hindmarsh (vice-president), Sir Arthur Lambert, Ald. R.H. Millican, W.S. Rolls, Dr. John T. Dunn (city analyst), T.C. Grant, W.T. Price (secretary), Edwin Turnbull, S. Addison Smith, Coun. John Leadbitter, J.G. Graham, George Idle, Leo Reid, Wm. Ferguson, C Meakin, W.F. Doty (American Consul), J.K. Seawell, Lieut.-Col. Cyril Millican, Arnold Bowes, W.T. Todd, Gladstone Walker, Councillor Richard Embleton, J.R. Perring, George Davis, W.K Rochester, R.A. Summersby (also representing Mr. Alfred Summersby), C.P. Kesteven, Lorne C. Robson, Sidney Reid, and T. Dobson.

When the sheriff and his attendants arrived, they found two English gentlemen—Mr. Martyn Pumphrey, Stockton-on-Tees, and Mr. Arnold S. Rowntree, of York—in the yard. District-Inspector Ewart inquired if they were Pressmen, and, receiving a reply in the negative, requested them to go outside the cordon drawn across the entrance to the yard, as none but Pressmen were permitted to advance further. Both immediately left the yard, and were joined later on by another Englishman, Mr. Thos Nesbitt, of Manchester, who with his wife also came to witness the proceedings.

ALLEGED INDECENT SHOWS.

The Market Committee reported that they had had before them a letter from Mr Martyn Pumphrey with reference to alleged indecent exhibitions in the shows at the November hirings, and the committee resolved to inform Mr Pumphrey that the committee were not aware of existence of the state of things alleged; but if Mr Pumphrey would confer with the Town Clerk, and specify the cases he complained of, the attention of the police would be directed to his complaint.

Several changes of tenancy fall to be recorded at this term. [ . . . ] Mr Martyn Pumphreyy removed from Summerhill to town several weeks before the term, and no loss is more deeply felt than his.

That First Cafe

Mr. MARTYN PUMPHREY, of the firm of sugar millers, of which he is one of the principals at Thornaby-on-Tees, has sent me an interesting note on the first cafe in Newcastle.

Glasgow, he observes, justly claims to be the Mother of Tea Rooms, and he ventures to claim for his native Newcastle the title of Father of Cafes—meaning grocery cafes as distinct from tea rooms run by bakery confectioners.

"In 1887," he places on record, "Pumphrey's Cafe was opened at 44, Cloth Market, where it was my privilege to roast the first pound of coffee in the window for my father, Thomas Pumphrey."

Death of Mr. M. Pumphrey

The death has occurred at his home, Meadowcroft, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, of Mr. Martyn Pumphrey, in his 77th year.

A year or two ago he retired from the firm of W. and M. Pumphrey Ltd., sugar millers, and was well-known in the trade. He leaves a widow, four sons and one daughter.

He was the youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Pumphrey, the head of the firm of Thomas Pumphrey and Sons, grocers, of Newcastle, with whom he served his apprenticeship

Mr. M. Pumphrey dead

Mr. Martyn Pumphrey, of Meadowcroft, Nunthorpe, chairman of W. and M. Pumphrey Ltd., sugar millers, Thornaby, died yesterday at the age of 76. Mr. Pumphrey and Mrs. Pumphrey celebrated their golden wedding in 1943. The funeral will take place at the Friends' burial ground, Great Ayton, on Wednesday, at 2.30 p.m.