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THE WISLEY GARDENS ENDOWMENT FUND. 



Deed of Declaration of Trust by The Royal Horticultural 



Society. 



To all to whom these Presents shall come the Royal Horticultural 

 Society (hereinafter called " the Society ") sends greeting Whereas 

 the Society is a Corporation incorporated and constituted by Royal 

 Charters or Letters Patent dated respectively the seventeenth day of 

 April One thousand eight hundred and nine the eighth day of May 

 One thousand eight hundred and sixty and the fourteenth day of 

 November One thousand eight hundred and ninety nine for 

 the purpose of the encouragement and improvement of scientific 

 and practical horticulture in all its branches with power to acquire 

 hold deal with and dispose of any personal property whatsoever and 

 under the said Charter of the fourteenth day of November One 

 thousand eight hundred and ninety nine the Society consists of 

 Fellows or Members and the Government of the Society and of its 

 business and affairs is vested in a Council consisting of fifteen persons 

 being Fellows of the Society and the Council has power (with the 

 sanction of a majority of a General Meeting of the Society) from time 

 to time to make Bye Laws for the Society (not being repugnant to 

 the provisions of the said Charter) and from time to time to revoke 

 alter or amend any bye law and whereas by an Indenture dated the 

 ninth day of September One thousand nine hundred and three and 

 made between Bernard Alexander Wilson John Griffin Bristow and 

 Herman George Wilson of the one part and Cecil Hanbury Ellen 

 Willmott and John Thomas Bennett-Poe of the other part certain 

 freehold hereditaments and premises comprising Sixty acres or there- 

 abouts situate in the Parish of Wisley in the County of Surrey (which 

 hereditaments and premises are hereinafter called " the Wisley Estate ") 

 were conveyed unto and to the use of the said Cecil Hanbury Ellen 

 Willmott and John Thomas Bennett-Poe in fee simple and whereas 

 by an Indenture of Declaration of Trust dated the twenty fourth day 

 of September One thousand nine hundred and three and made between 

 the said Cecil Hanbury Ellen Willmott and John Thomas Bennett- 

 Poe of the first part Sir Thomas Hanbury of the second part the said 

 Cecil Hanbury Ellen Willmott and John Thomas Bennett-Poe and 

 Sir James John Trevor Lawrence Joseph Gurney Fowler and the 

 Reverend William Wilks of the third part and the Society of the fourth 

 part they the said Cecil Hanbury Ellen Willmott and John Thomas 

 Bennett-Poe declared that they and the survivors and survivor of 

 them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor did and should stand 



