A WEDDING GIFT TO ROYALTY 



and strenuous that life may be. By the many 

 with whom he was associated in public work, he 

 will long be quoted as an example of how much 

 usefulness a single life can compass and how well 

 a man can serve his day and generation when he 

 gives his mind to it. 



A few years previous to his death, the Society, 

 in recognition of the valuable services he had 

 rendered to it and to Agriculture generally, 

 unanimously elected him as a vice-president. 



I have testified somewhat fully as to the 

 manner of man George Gibbons was, because he 

 was so much out of the ordinary ruck, and because 

 I doubt if anyone, outside his own family, saw 

 more of him than I did. We travelled many 

 hundreds of miles in each other's company, with 

 the opportunity this afforded for close inter- 

 course ; we stood together on many public plat- 

 forms, when our joint mission was to enlist recruits 

 for the Dairy Schools ; we exchanged many 

 confidences ; and it fell to me to help materialize, 

 and put into practice, the developments of his 

 active mind. 



On the marriage of the present King, he 

 graciously accepted a wedding-gift from the 

 Society, consisting of a Cheddar cheese made 

 by students at the Society's Cheese School, 

 and which was awarded a first prize at the 

 Society's Gloucester Show ; the presentation 

 being made on behalf of the Society by the 

 late Lord Fitzhardinge, the President of that year, 

 1893. 



Here we have another instance of history 

 repeating itself, or very nearly, for I have a copy 



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