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APPENDIX No. 1 



CLARE SEWELL READ. 



From " Who's Who," 1904. 



Read, Clare Sewell, J.P.; distinguished authority on farming ; 

 b. 1 826 ; e.s. of George Read and Sarah Ann, d. of late Clare 

 Sewell, Barton Bendish Hall ; m., 1859, Sarah Maria, o.d. of 

 J. Watson. 



M.P., East Norfolk, 1865-68. 

 South Norfolk, 1868-80. 

 West Norfolk, 1884-85. 



Parliamentary Secretary, Local Government Board, 1874-75 ; 

 resigned as a protest against regulations for pleuro -pneumonia 

 not being made uniform in England and Ireland, when the farmers 

 of England presented him with 5500 and a service of plate. 



He had four daughters 



Mary Elizabeth ; m., 1887, Robert Anderson. 

 Katharine Frances ; m., 1885, Harry Valentine Baker. 

 Clare Sybil ; m., 1913, Canon Martin Buckle. 

 Margaret Sewell ; unmarried. 



He died 21st. August, 1905, at his London house, 91, Kensing- 

 ton Gardens Square. 



Extract from a speech by Mr. Charles Howard, of Bidenham. who 

 presided at the presentation and banquet to Mr. Read, Cannon 

 Street Hotel, London, 2nd May, 1876. 



*' Mr. Read, from early life, distinguished himself. I believe 

 at school he was in the first and foremost rank, and after spending 

 a few short years on his father's farm, he undertook the manage- 

 ment of a property in a distant part, where, nearly some thirty 

 years since, he made his first literary contribution in the shape 

 of a prize report in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England. That was soon after followed by other prize reports 

 on the farming of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk 

 all written in that terse and practical style which has ever 

 characterised Mr. Read's writings and speeches. 



(First entered Parliament 1865, for East Norfolk). " He soon 

 won for himself the respect of the House and even elicited from 



