Arnold Theophilus Biddulph Pinchard
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Arnold Theophilus Biddulph Pinchard
by Lafayette
half-plate nitrate negative, 9 August 1932
Given by Pinewood Studios via Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989
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NPG x48285
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- Arnold Theophilus Biddulph Pinchard (1859-1934), Reverend and Secretary, English Church Union. Sitter in 3 portraits.
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- Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) (active 1880-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6908 portraits.
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Carol Day
14 April 2018, 18:19
Arnold Theophilus Biddulph Pinchard was born in 1859, and ordained in 1886.
He married Sophia Maud Butler and my grandmother was one of their four children.
Rev. Arnold T. B. Pinchard was appointed in 1889 to take responsibility for the church groups in Barracas al Norte and Lomas de Zamora, from 1889 to 1895.
Arnold Pinchard had a mission to tame the Peakies.
He first set up a club for young men to keep them off the streets and out of trouble and then moved them into sports such as boxing. Peaky Blinders were a fearsome street gang who ruled over the industrialised streets of Bordesley and Small Heath in the 1880s and 1890s.
He wrote several books, was Secretary of the English Church Union, editor of The Religious Life, was awarded the MBE in 1918 for his work on the Birmingham Lord Mayor's Committee for Organising Hospitality for Refugees, set up the Pilgrim Players and produced plays for the Birmingham repertory company, was involved in the arts and was friends with many of the great poets, writers and artists of the day.
He also designed an organ case at Great Chalfield Manor, Wiltshire, parts of which stood in for Thomas Cromwell’s home in the BBC Wolf Hall series. He died in 1934.