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The  late  Joseph  Shuttleworth. 
Society,  and  with  such  advantage  not  only  to  the  agriculturists 
of  the  country,  but  it  may  confidently  be  added  to  the  manu- 
facturers of  implements  generally.  He  was  ever  ready  with 
a word  of  advice,  and  many  a suggestion  for  improvements  was 
voluntarily  given  by  him.  He  always  showed  himself  to  be 
a man  of  strict  impartiality,  holding  the  balance  justly  amidst 
the  keenest  competition  between  exhibitors,  to  whom  the  results 
of  the  trials  were  often  of  momentous  importance.  He  possessed 
a naturally  genial  temperament,  and  rendered  the  few  minutes 
of  relaxation  that  could  be  allowed  to  intervene  amidst  the 
almost  incessant  work  of  the  trial-days  at  the  Society’s  Shows, 
doubly  acceptable  to  his  colleagues  by  some  amusing  anecdote 
or  appropriate  hon-mot. 
Of  his  natural  talent  it  is  unnecessary  to  relate  more  here. 
It  was,  as  an  Italian  would  say,  in  fronte  scritto,  for  seldom 
would  a phrenologist  be  able  to  point  to  one  with  a more  massive 
brow,  or  one  whose  intellectual  faculties  were  more  fully  deve- 
loped. In  my  capacity  of  Honorary  Director  of  the  Shows, 
having  worked  with  the  subject  of  this  Memoir  during  the 
entire  period  of  Mr.  Amos’s  official  connection  with  the  Society, 
and  also  the  Universal  Exhibitions  both  in  London  and  Paris, 
I cannot  refrain  from  bearing  testimony  to  the  merits  of  one 
whom  I shall  ever  recollect  as  a valued  colleague,  who  conferred 
great  and  lasting  benefits  on  agriculture,  and  therefore  on  the 
country  at  large. 
XIII. — The  late  Joseph  Shuttleivorth. 
The  late  Chairman  of  the  Showyard  Contracts  Committee  of 
this  Society  was  born  on  the  12th  of  July,  1819,  at  the  village 
of  Dogdyke,  near  Lincoln,  at  which  place  his  father  carried  on 
the  business  of  a boat-builder.  On  leaving  school,  at  fourteen 
years  of  age,  he  commenced  learning  his  father’s  trade,  and 
about  two  years  later  was  sent  to  take  the  management  of  a 
second  boat-building  yard  belonging  to  him,  near  the  Stamp 
End  Locks,  at  Lincoln,  on  a piece  of  ground  which  formed  part 
of  the  present  Stamp  End  Works.  Even  at  this  early  period  of 
his  life  the  subject  of  this  Memoir  is  said  to  have  displayed 
more  than  average  ability,  energy,  and  pluck  ; and  subsequently 
the  Lincoln  boat-yard  was  turned  over  to  him  and  a Mr. 
Godwin.  At  that  time  Mr.  Nathaniel  Clayton  had  established 
himself,  in  a small  way,  as  an  iron-founder,  on  premises  adjoin- 
ing those  of  the  young  boat-building  firm  ; and  after  a little 
while — in  the  year  1842 — he  was  joined  by  Mr.  Shuttleworth. 
