The late Sir B. T. Brandretli Gibbs. 
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superintendence of all the details of his former office. In 1853, 
at the hands of the Duke of Richmond, and again in 1878, at 
the hands of the then President, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 
Mr. Gibbs received the thanks of the Club for the long-con- 
tinued services which he had rendered. 
Sir Brandreth Gibbs's services to Agriculture include much 
that lay outside the two great Societies with which he was 
more immediately connected. He took an active part in the 
organization of the two Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, 
being superintendent on both occasions of the very important 
Agricultural Department of each. In 1855 he was in charge 
of the English Agricultural Section of the Great Exhibition 
in Paris ; and he received from the Imperial Government of 
France a gold medal for the assistance rendered by him as a 
member of the Committee of Advice for the International Live 
Stock Show at Passy on that occasion. In 1867 he acted as 
Special Commissioner for the Agricultural Department of the 
second Great French Exhibition. And at the Universal Exhi- 
bition in Paris, during 1878, he was again General Superin- 
tendent of the British Agricultural Section ; and forty pages of 
the Catalogue of that section of the Exhibition are filled with 
his ' Notes on British Agricultural Machinery, and on the 
Principal Breeds of British Live Stock.' For his services at 
that time Mr. Gibbs received from the President of the French 
Republic the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honour. 
He had previously been engaged in 1873 as member of the 
Committee of Advice for the agricultural portion of the Exhi- 
bition at Vienna, receiving the Austrian Order of Francis 
Joseph from the Emperor for his services ; and he was Super- 
intendent of Agricultural Machinery and Live-stock at the Show 
at Philadelphia in 1876. 
In the year 1878 Mr. Brandreth Gibbs received the honour 
of Knighthood at the hands of Her Majesty the Queen — 
certainly a well-deserved distinction after his life-long services. 
Nor had his labours been those merely of an organizer or 
director. In the midst of his many engagements, to all of 
which he was ever loyal, and in all of which he was laborious, 
he never lost an opportunity of enlisting and stimulating 
others. He was an active member of the Food Committee of 
the Society of Arts, and I remember meeting him some years 
ago near Charing Cross on his way to one of its meetings — for, 
though also a member, I was walking the other way — and his 
remonstrance, not soon to be forgotten, may be mentioned here 
as characteristic of the man. 
Sir Brandreth Gibbs had been elected Director and Secretary 
of the Grand International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883, but 
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