Charles Handell. 
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"Wilson, who retired at the beginning of 1881 to become Chair- 
man of the Stock Prizes Committee, and to make room for Mr. 
Shuttleworth. on whose strong recommendation the present 
Superintendent of Works in the Society's Show-yard had been 
appointed in the previous year. On Mr. Shuttleworth's decease 
in Januaiy, 1883, Mr. Eandell resumed the Chairmanship of the 
Committee, and was re-elected year after year until his death. 
During last winter Mr. Randell was not particularly well, 
and thousrh he attended the Committee and Council meetinors in 
November and December, his old enemy the gout held him fast 
at home, much against his will, at the time of the February and 
March meetings. He took the greatest possible interest in the 
inquiry of Sir John Thorold s Committee, and was in constant 
correspondence with the writer on points arising out of it. 
Sending reluctantly back to the office the Agenda paper for the 
Februaiy meeting of the Show-yard Works Committee, which 
his gout prevented him from attending, he wrote expressing 
the hope that some one other than himself would be elected 
Chairman of the year, as he was too deaf and too unwell to 
regularly undertake the duties. The Committee nevertheless 
re-elected him as Chairman, and he was fortunately able to pre- 
side at its April meeting, when much business of a complicated 
nature was discussed and settled. He was present, also, at a 
conference of the Finance and Show-yard Works Committees held 
on the same day with reference to the Show-yard expenditure, 
and took a prominent part in its deliberations. At the May 
CouncU he was also present, and made an admirable little speech 
in seconding, as the oldest Member of Council, Earl Cathcart s 
resolution recording the grateful thanks of the Society to Her 
Majesty the Queen for consenting to act as its President during 
its 50th year of existence. At the June meeting it was 
generally remarked by those present that Mr. Randell seemed 
better in health and spirits than he had been for years. In 
addition to the work of his own Committee, he attended by 
invitation a meeting of the Education Committee, and took an 
active part in a prolonged discussion on a particular point in 
which he had greatly interested himself. He spoke several 
times at the Council meeting, and the writer had a long and 
most instructive conversation with him after the Council rose, 
in which he displaced all his old vigour. 
A few days later, however, he was seized with faintness at 
his home at Chadbury. Everything possible was done, but he 
never rose again from his bed : and early on Saturdav morning, 
June 23, his soiTOwing friends in London learnt that he was no 
more. 
