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[Copies of the full Report of any of the Council Meetings held during the year 

 1914 may be obtained on application to the Secretary, at 16 Bedford Square, 

 London, W.C] 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



fIDinutes of tbe CounciL 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1914. 



At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C, the Earl of 

 POWIS (President) in the Chair : — 



Present: — Trustees. — Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., the Earl of Coventry, 

 Lord Moreton, the Earl of Northbrook. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Pi,. W. Adeane, Mr. Percy Crutchley, the Right 

 Hon. Sir A. E. Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, 

 Bart., C.V.O., the Hon. C. T. Parker, the Earl of Yarborough. 



Other Members of the Council. — Mr. D. T. Alexander, Mr. T. L. Aveling, 

 Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. Davis Brown, Mr. Richardson Carr, Mr. W. W. 

 Chapman, Mr. John Evens, Sir Howard Frank, Lord Harlech, Mr. Joseph 

 Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Lord Hastings, Sir Arthur G. Hazlerigg, Bart., Mr. 

 R. W. Hobbs, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Mr. Dunbar Kelly, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. 

 Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. G. Norris Midwood, 

 Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. John Myatt, Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. R. G. Patterson, 

 Mr. A. W. Perkin, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. G. G. 

 Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G., Mr. C. C. 

 Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. C. W. 

 Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, and Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. ^ 



The following Members of the Shrewsbury Local Committee were also 

 present : — The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., and Mr. E. 

 Clothier (Local Secretary). 



The Earl of Powis, on taking the Chair for the first time, thanked the 

 Council for the honour they had done him in electing him President. He was 

 aware that he did not hold the usual qualifications of those who had occupied 

 the Chair. He knew that generally they had elected somebody who had served 

 them for a long time and given distinguished services on the Council, and had 

 also been an experienced agriculturist. He was afraid he could lay claim to 

 neither of those qualifications, but he would endeavour by energy and attention 

 to make up as far as possible for the lack of qualification. He hoped, with 

 their assistance, that the year 1914 and the visit of the Society to Shrewsbury 

 would be among the most successful in the annals of the Society. He could 

 assure them that the Local Committee was doing everything in its power to 

 make the visit of the Society a success, and to give every convenience for its 

 visit to the town of Shrewsbury. He thanked them once more for the great 

 honour they had done him, and he appealed to the Council to give him their 

 assistance and forbearance during his year of office. 



The President formally announced, with much regret, the death of Mr. 

 Martin John Sutton, who, as a Member of Council from 1883 till 1904, had 

 taken an active part in the Society's work. Mr. Sutton at the time of his 

 decease was a representative of the Society on the National Agricultural 

 Examination Board, and only in the week preceding his death had been elected 

 Chairman of that Board. He was sure that Members of Council would greatly 

 regret the loss of one who had been closely identified with agriculture and the 

 work of the Society for so many years, and that it would be their wish that he 



