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IProceeMnoe at 

 (Beneral fIDeetina of (Bovernore anb flDcmbers, 



HELD IN THE 

 LARGE TENT IN THE SHOWTARD AT SHREWSBURY, 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1914. 



THE EARL OF POWIS (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 



Present : — Trustees. — Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, 

 the Earl of Coventry, Lord Middleton, Lord Moreton, the Earl of Northbrook, 

 Sir John Thorold, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. J. 

 Marshall Diigdale, the Right Hon. Sir Ailwyn E. Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Mr. R. M. 

 Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., C.V.O., the Hon. Cecil T. Parker. 



Other Members of Council. — Mr. D. T. Alexander, Mr. H. Dent Brockle- 

 hurst, Mr. R. G. Carden, Mr. W. W. Chapman, the Hon. J. E. Cross, Mr. J. T. 

 C. Eadie, Mr. A. E. Evans, Mr. John Evens, Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. W. T. Game, 

 Lord Harlech, Mr. Joseph Harris, Lord Hastings, Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, Bart., 

 Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. W. J. Hosken, Mr. J. Howard Howard, 

 Mr. Dunbar Kelly, Mr. J. L. Luddington, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Christopher 

 Middleton, Mr. G. Norris Midwood, Mr. John Myatt, Mr. William Nocton, 

 Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, 

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

 Mr. C. W. Tindall, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 



Governors. — Sir Arthur P. Heywood, Bart., and Mr. Colin Maclver. 



Honorary Member. — Professor Sir John McFadyean. 



Ordinary 3Iembers.— Messrs. R. T. G. Abbott, E. C. Barker, W. S. Barrett, 

 A. S. Berry, F. Butter, Wm. Davies, Samuel Denson, Peter Everall, H. J. Green- 

 wood, T. G. Heatley, P. Hurlbutt, Thomas Jones, J. Kendrick, W. H. Lander. 

 J. S. Ledbrook, K. J. J. Mackenzie, D. MacNicoll, R. B. Marsh, J. Marshall, 

 J. M. Naylor, P. J. Neate, B. W. Pearce, F. Hamlyn Price, R. Henry Rew, J. 

 Eustace Seeker, J. Shuker, J. Stirling, Richard Stratton, R. W. Timmis, T. Shaw 

 Tinker, George Townsend, J. Wakeman, &c., &c. 



The following representatives of the Shrewsbury Local Committee also 

 attended : — Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., Mr. H. C. Clarke, Colonel Cureton, Lieut.- 

 Colonel A. H. O. LLoyd, M.V.O., and Mr. Edward Clothier (Local Secretary). 



President's Opening Remarks. 



The President, in opening the proceedings, said that as that was the first 

 time he had had the privilege of addressing the Governors and Members of the 

 Society, he desired to take the opportunity of thanking them for the great 

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

 sure that not only himself, but all the people in Shropshire, appreciated the 

 great compliment the Royal Agricultural Society had paid them in electing 

 a local man as President of the Society. He was glad to be able to con- 

 gratulate them on the fact that, at any rate so far, they had had magnificent 

 weather, and they were fortunate in having such a splendid Showyard. He 

 was also glad that, with the exception of the Society's Jubilee Show at 

 Windsor in 1889, presided over by Queen Victoria, the live stock entries at 

 Shrewsbury were a record. It was a great pleasure to the Council, and, he 

 was sure, to all the Members, to see the breeds of stock more especially 

 identified with the locality coming out so strongly in the various classes. The 

 horses, he was told, made a magnificent show. Personally, he had not had a 



