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In Memoriam : 
Hertford, the Earl of Harrowby, Earl Fortescue, tlie Earl of 
Wemyss, Lord Sudeley, the late !Mr. Holland, and Mr. Robert 
Martm, and by all his employers he was regarded in the light of 
a true and confidential friend whom they thoroughly respected 
and esteemed. He was looked upon as a leading authority 
on all matters connected with the letting and management of 
land, and Randell's agreement has become the leading prece- 
dent of the agreements for farm letting over a very wide district. 
In addition to his agencies, ]Mr. Kandell's services were continu- 
ally in request as an arbitrator and valuer, and as he did all his 
work conscientiously and thoroughly, it may be readily under- 
stood that he led an extremely active life. 
An old friend of his, who wrote the exceedingly able obituary 
notice of him in the Evesham Journal from which most of the 
above facts have been derived, vividly sketches his character in 
the following words : — 
Mr. Eandell had just that combination of mind and character which 
give a man influence among those of his fellow-men with whom he was 
hrought into association. Terse and direct in speech, dealing only with 
matters which he completely understood, and perfectly sincere and straight- 
forward in motive, he rarely failed to carry to success any proposal he 
favoured, while on the other hand few suggestions which encountered his 
opposition attained or retained vitality. The ver^* strength of his mind 
and convictions occasionally gave an impression of peremptoriness to his 
character, and he never took much trouble to conceal the scorn with which 
he ^"iewed weakness, or what he deemed to be insincerity or double-dealing. 
Mr. Eandell was elected a Member of this Society on 
February 2. 1853, and a Member of the Council on August 7, 
1861, on the motion of Mr. Fisher Hobbs. On Februar\- 1, 
1865, a Select Committee, consisting of Earl Cathcart, Major- 
General the Hon. A. X. Hood [the present Viscount Bridport], 
the Hon. A. Vernon [the late Lord Vernon], Mr. Fisher Hobbs, 
]NL. Eandell and Mr. Torr, was appointed to consider the whole 
question of the Contract for the Show-yard. 
Mr. Eandell took from the first a prominent share in the 
deliberations of this Committee, and was elected its first Chair- 
man when it became a Standing Committee in 1866. He held 
this position uninterruptedly (with the exception of the year 
1870, when Lord Vernon took the chair) until 1877, when, owing 
to Ul-health, he retired altogether, at his owq special request, from 
the Committee, and from other Committees, such as the Stock 
Prizes and Implement, on which he had previously served. In 
1878, however, he was re-elected a Member of the Committee, and 
during that year he acted as Chaimian of the Finance Committee 
during Col. Kingscote's presidency. From 1877 to 1880, the chair 
of the Show-yard Contracts Committee was held by Mr. Jacob 
