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from Thorverton Bridge to near Beckleigh Bridge, and 

 comprises the best fishing in that river. 



The Hon. Secretary is W. C. James, Esq., Thorverton, 

 Collumpton, Devon. 



Trent Fishery Board of Conservators. 



The chief honour of the establishment of this important 

 Board belongs unquestionably to Thomas Worthington, 

 Esq., solicitor, of Derby, who in 1863, by means of a series 

 of letters addressed to the Derby Mercury, called public 

 attention to the fact that no proper steps had been taken, 

 under the Salmon Fisheries Act of 1861, for the preser- 

 vation of the Trent. At a public meeting which followed, 

 Mr. Worthington and another gentleman, on the motion of 

 the late Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., were appointed the first 

 conservators under the act. The movement greatly inte- 

 rested the then Lord Vernon and other fishery proprie- 

 tors, amongst whom was Mr. Dennison, the then Speaker 

 of the House of Commons. In June 1864 a meeting of 

 fishery proprietors was held at Mr. Dennison's residence, 

 when an association was formed, and called the " Trent 

 Fishery Association." Mr. Thomas Worthington, and 

 Major Scott, of Knaith Hall, near Gainsborough, were 

 appointed joint honorary secretaries. 



In 1865, the Salmon Fisheries Amendment Act having 

 been passed, the Trent Fishery Association was duly formed 

 into the "Trent Fishery Board," in pursuance of the act. 

 Major Scott resigned the honorary secretaryship, and 

 Colonel G. M. Hutton, of Gate Burton, Gainsborough, was 

 appointed in his place, and still remains hon. secretary. 



In December 1880 Mr. Worthington, in consequence of 

 ill-health, was compelled to resign the hon. secretaryship, 



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