Background
Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk, the son of Reverend Ewen Macpherson Pinsent, curate of St Andrew's parish church.
His grandfather Clive Pinsent was a younger son of Sir Richard Pinsent, 1st Baronet, President of the Law Society between 1918 and 1919 (see Pinsent Baronets). Pinsent is directly descended from Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and thus from Edward I of England and William the Conqueror. Sir George Anson is also an ancestor.
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