Ellen Pinsent

Ellen Pinsent

Dame Ellen Frances Pinsent DBE (26 March 1866 – 1949), 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.