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Society in June, 1839, and was the sole surviving Foundation Life Governor. 

 The Society had been represented at the funeral by Mr. James Falconer. 



The Seal of the Society was ordereil to be affixed to an agreement with the 

 Refreshment Contractors in connection with the Show. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 

 Wednesday. May 8 next. 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912. 



At a Monthly Council held at 16 Bedford Square. W.C., Lord Middleton 

 (President) in the chair : — 



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

 the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Moreton, the Earl of Northbrook. Sir John H. 

 Thorold, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Adeane, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. Percy 

 Crutchley, the Right Hon. Sir Ailwyn E. Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Sir Gilbert 

 Greenall, Bart., C.V.O., the Earl of Yarborough. 



Other Members of the Cui/}icil—Mv. D. T. Alexander, Mr. T. L. Aveling, 

 Capt. Clive Behrens. Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. Davis Brown, Mr. 

 Richardson Carr, the Hon. J. E. Cross, Mr. Joseph Harris, Sir A. G. Hazlerigg, 

 Bart., Major H. G. Henderson, M.P., Mr. Arthur Hiscock, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, 

 Sir C. V. Knightley. Bart., Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. 

 May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. G. Norris Midwood, Mr. John Myatt, Mr. C. M. S. 

 Pilkington, Mr. W. A. Prout, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. Coltman 

 Rogers, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. E. W. Stauyforth, Mr. A. P. 

 Turner, an<l Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. 



Governor. — Mr. W. F. Holt Beever. 



The following Members of the Doncaster Local Committee were also 

 present :— The Mayor of Doncaster, Viscount Chetwynd, Alderman G. Smith, 

 Mr. R. A. H. Tovey, and Mr. F. H. Chafer (Local Secretary). 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on April 3, 1912, 

 were taken as read and approved. 



Fifty-six duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as 

 Members. 



In presenting the Report of the Implement Committee — which contained a 

 recommendation that the best thanks of the Society be accorded to Mr. C. D. 

 Nicholson for the arrangements made by him for carrying out the Trials on his 

 land at Stainton Manor — Mr. Cornwallis expressed on behalf of the Stewards 

 of the Drill Trials their indebtedness to Mr. Nicholson for all the trouble he 

 had taken to make things go smoothly. He entered willingly and heartily into 

 all the arrangements, and he (Mr. Cornwallis) hoped that in accordance with the 

 paragraph in the report, a suitable letter might he sent to Mr. Nicholson. 



Sir John Thorold, in presenting the Report of the Committee of 

 Selection, said he would like to move that the name of the Earl of Northbrook 

 be submitted to the Members at the General Meeting in December for election 

 as President for the year 1913. The Committee, he said, were unaiumous in 

 their choice, and he thought the Council would agree that they could n<it bring 

 before them a better name. (Hear, hear.) It. was a recommendation which 

 he was sure would commend itself not oidy to all in that room, but also to the 

 Members of the Society generally throughout the country. 



Mr. Adeane had great pleasure in seconding the proposal of Sir John 

 Thorold. Lord Northbrook had very great ([ualifications for the post, as a 

 breeder of Shorthorns, as a friend of Agriculture in all its aspects, and as a 

 great supporter of the Society and a hard worker on the Council. He was 

 sure they would be very glad to have him as their chief in 1913. 



The President said he could only add that the suggestion of Lord 

 Northbrook's name would be a most popular one, both there and throughout 

 the country. 



The resolution was thereupon unanimously adopted. 



