Anniversary  General  Meeting,  May  30,  1904.  xliii 
Election  of  President  for  1904-1905. 
Lord  Barnakd  moved  that  Lord 
Middleton  be  elected  President  of  the 
Society  for  the  year  following  the 
Show  of  1!)04.  It  was  not  necessary 
for  him  to  say  anything  to  recommend 
Lord  Middleton  to  their  notice.  His 
Lordship’s  deep  interest  in  everything 
which  was  connected  with  agriculture 
and  the  rearing  of  stock  was  well- 
known  to  all  agi'iculturists,  and  he  was 
quite  sure  that  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society  would  prosper  under  Lord 
Middleton’s  presidency.  (Hear,  hear.) 
Mr.  C.  W.  Tindall  seconded,  and 
the  motion  was  carried  unanimously. 
Lord  Middleton,  in  reply,  thanked 
the  meeting  for  the  kind  anti  cordial 
way  in  which  they  had  elected  him  to 
be  President  of  the  Society  for  the 
ensuing  year.  He  had  for  many  years 
taken  great  interest  in  the  Society’s 
affairs,  but  he  had  oidy  served  a short 
apprenticeship  on  the  Council.  Just 
now  was,  of  course,  an  anxious  time 
for  all  of  them  ; but  the  well-being 
of  the  Society  would  be  his  chief  and 
earnest  desire,  and  he  would  endeavour 
to  do  all  he  could  to  carry  out  the 
woi'k  expected  of  him  as  Piesident 
of  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  for 
the  ensuing  year. 
Election  of  Trustees,  Vice-Presidents  and 
Council. 
The  twelve  Trustees  and  twelve 
Vice-Presidents  were  re-elected  by 
show  of  hands.  The  meeting  then 
proceeded  to  the  election  of  twenty- 
five  Members  of  Council  under  the 
procedure  laid  down  by  Bye-law  23. 
The  President  said  that  there  were 
thirty  candidates  for  the  twenty-five 
seats  on  the  Council,  viz.,  twenty-one 
retiring  Members  of  Council,  and 
nine  new  candidates.  One  of  these 
retiring  Members,  Mr.  Martin  Sutton, 
had  since  tendereil  his  resignation, 
much  to  their  regret,  and  had  intimateil 
that  he  did  not  desire  re-election.  His 
name  had  been  omitted,  therefore, 
from  the  voting  paper  as  printed  for 
the  use  of  the  meeting. 
In  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  Bye-law  23  (e),  his  lordship  pro- 
ceeded to  nominate  Mr.  Roland  Burke, 
Mr.  Ernest  Mathews,  and  Mr.  J. 
Herbert  Taylor  to  act  as  scrutineers 
of  the  voting  papers.  These  having 
been  duly  collected,  and  the  report  of 
the  scrutineers  thereon  received,  the 
President  announced  that  the  fol- 
lowing twenty-five  Governors  or 
Members  had  obtained  the  majority 
of  votes,  and  had  therefore  been 
elected  Members  of  the  Council : — 
FRANKISH,  William,  The  Moorlands, 
Bracebridge,  Lincoln. 
Hornsby.  James.  Laxton  Park,  Stamford, 
LEVETT,  Captain  W.  S.  B.,  Milford  Hall, 
Stafford. 
Marshall.  Henry  D.,  Carr  House,  Gains- 
borough. 
Ransome,  James  E.,  Holme  Wood, 
Ipswich. 
Rogers,  Charles  Coltman,  Stanage  Park, 
Brampton  Bryan. 
Curtis-Hayward,  Lieut.-Colonel  J.  F., 
Quedgeley.  Glouce^ter. 
Foster.  S.  P.,  Killhow,  Carlisle. 
Grenville,  Robert  Neville,  Butleigh 
Court,  Glastonbury. 
Hobbs.  Robert  W.,  Kelmscott,  Lechlade, 
Glos. 
Howard.  John  Howard,  St.  Mary’s 
House,  Bedford. 
RYLAND,  Howard  P.,  Moxhull  Park, 
Erdington. 
SCOBY,  William,  Hobground  House,  Sin- 
nington,  R.S.O.,  Yorks. 
Stratton,  Richard,  The  Duffryn,  New- 
port, Mon. 
Warren,  Reginald  Augustus,  Preston 
Place,  Worthing. 
Wheeler,  E.  Vincent  V.,  Newnham 
Couri,  Tenburv. 
Brougham  and  Vaux,  Lord,  Brougham 
Hall,  Penrith. 
Granby,  Marquis  of,  Belvoir  Castle, 
Grantham. 
Greenall,  Sir  Gilbert,  Bart.,  Walton 
HaU,  Warrington. 
Muntz,  Sir  Philip  Albert,  Bart.,  M.P., 
Dunsmore,  Rugby. 
Williams,  J.  C.,  Caerhays  Castle,  St. 
Ausiell. 
Middleton,  Christopher,  Vane  'Terrace, 
Darlington. 
Knowles,  Robert  Millington,  Colston 
B.issett  Hall,  Notts. 
Montefiore,  The  Rev.  D.  B.,  Mursley 
HaU,  Winslow. 
Palmer,  Ralph,  Hubbards,  Nazeing, 
Essex. 
Report  of  Council. 
The  Secretary,  having  briefly  in- 
dicated the  principal  items  in  the 
Report  of  the  Council,  it  was  adopted 
on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Walter 
Crosland,  seconded  by  Mr.  John 
Barker. 
Suggestions  of  Governors  and  Members. 
In  response  to  tlie  usual  inquiry 
from  the  Chair  as  to  whether  any 
Governor  or  Member  had  any  remark 
to  make  or  suggestion  to  offer  that 
might  be  referred  to  tlie  Council  for 
consideration. 
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