io THE AGRICULTURAL CLUB. 



elected a member under Rule 3. He was succeeded as 

 honorary secretary by Mr. S. A. Smith. 



The Agricultural Club was an exclusive body. The 

 right to membership was acquired only by service and 

 could not be denied or alienated. Any person ceasing to 

 serve the Agricultural Wages Board on a District Wages 

 Committee forfeited at once his or her right of membership 

 and was ipso facto removed from the roll of members. As 

 Lord Melbourne said of the Garter, membership was esteemed 

 because there was " no damned nonsense about merit " 

 attaching to it, though in this case the qualification was one 

 which denoted the possession of courage and public spirit. 

 As a concession to human weakness the pure doctrine was 

 adulterated by a rule permitting the election of a strictly 

 limited number of members who were frankly chosen for 

 special agricultural merit. This distinction was somewhat 

 grudgingly accorded and for a long time the number was 

 not made up to the maximum of twenty permitted by 

 the rules. 



The names of all those elected by the Club honoris causa 

 are given below, but in several cases after election they 

 acquired the right of membership by becoming members 

 of District Wages Committees and were consequently 

 transferred to the ordinary list. 



A complete list of all who were at any time members of 

 the Club appears in the Appendix. 



Lord Ailwyn of Honingham, K.C.V.O., K.B.E. 



A. W. Ashby. 



Lord Justice Bankes. 



Sir Charles Bathurst, K.B.E. (afterwards Lord Bledisloe). 



Lt.-General Sir E. Bethune, K.C.B. 



Lady Margaret Boscawen. 



Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., D.Sc. 



A. Goddard, C.B.E. 



F. E. Green. 



Sir A. D. Hall, K.C.B. 



Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse. 



Prof. Brynor Jones. 



R. V. Lennard, M.A. 



