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SIR CHARLES WHITEHEAD. 



During the year the Society has suffered the loss of three 

 Members who served it on its Council, and in many other 

 ways. 



Sir Charles Whitehead, who was born in 1834, was a native 

 of Kent, and was educated at Tonbridge School. Considera- 

 tions of health decided his parents to have him trained in 

 agriculture, and he spent some time with the late Mr. Elias 

 Squarey, in Wiltshire. Subsequently he farmed in Kent for 

 many years, and at the same time he devoted himself to 

 administrative work of all kinds ; but in 1880, owing to the 

 pressure of county and other public engagements, he finally 

 gave up farming. 



Sir Charles contributed many articles, principally on hop 

 and fruit-growing, and on insect pests, to the Journal of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society and to the agricultural press 

 generally. He was a member of the Royal Commission on 

 Agricultural Depression, and he conducted many investigations 

 of plant diseases for the Committee of Council for Agriculture, 

 being ultimately appointed Agricultural Adviser to that body. 

 On the appointment of the Board of Agriculture, he continued 

 in this office with the title of Technical Adviser. Sir Charles 

 joined the Royal Agricultural Society in the year 1857, and in 

 1866 he was elected a Member of Council, representing his 

 native county. He served on the Council for thirty-seven 

 years, during which he acted upon the Journal, Chemical, 

 Botanical and Zoological Committees, and officiated both as 

 Steward and Judge at the aimual shows on many occasions. 

 In the year 1889 he was elected a Governor of the Society. 



Sir Charles Whitehead married, in 1865, Catherine Letitia, 

 daughter of the late Mr. R. C. P. Balston, of Thornhills, 

 Maidstone. His wife predeceased him in 1896, and Sir 

 Charles himself died suddenly on the 29th November last. 



