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REPORT  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  THE 
ANNUAL  GENERAL  MEETING  OF  GOVERNORS 
AND  MEMBERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY, 
Held  at  the  Royal  Agricultural  Hall,  Islington, 
On  WEDNESDA  Y,  December  8,  1909,  at  3 p.m. 
The  Duke  of  Devonshire  (Trustee)  in  the  Chair. 
1.  The  Council  have  to  report  that  the  list  of  Governors 
and  Members  has  undergone  the  following  changes  during  the 
year  which  has  elapsed  since  the  Annual  General  Meeting  on 
December  9,  1908  : 6 new  Governors  and  736  new  Members 
have  joined  the  Society,  and  3 Members  have  been  re-instated 
under  By-law  14  ; whilst  the  deaths  of  9 Governors,  97  Life 
Members,  120  Annual  Members  have  been  reported.  A total 
of  37  Members  have  been  struck  off  the  books  under  By-law 
12,  owing  to  absence  of  addresses ; 65  under  By-law  13,  for 
arrears  of  subscription  ; and  1 Governor,  1 Life  Member,  and 
234  Annual  Members  have  resigned. 
2.  During  the  past  year,  the  Society’s  losses  by  death 
include  Earl  Egerton  of  Tatton  and  Mr.  Samuel  P.  Foster — 
both  of  whom  had  served  on  its  governing  body.  The  late 
Earl  Egerton,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  was  a Trustee, 
first  became  associated  with  the  Society  in  the  year  1871  as  a 
member  of  the  Council,  and — with  only  one  exception — had 
served  on  that  body  for  a longer  period  than  any  of  his 
colleagues.  His  Lordship  filled  the  office  of  President  in  the 
year  1887,  when  the  Annual  Show  was  held  at  Newcastle. 
Mr.*  Samuel  Foster’s  association  with  the  Society  began  in 
1876,  in  which  year  he  became  a Member.  He  served  on  the 
Council  for  twenty-six  years,  from  1879  to  1905,  and  on  many 
occasions  during  that  period  acted  as  a Steward  at  the  Show. 
3.  Amongst  other  Governors  and  Members  whose  loss  by 
death,  since  the  last  Annual  General  Meeting,  the  Society  has 
to  deplore,  are  the  Marquis  of  Ripon,  K.G.,  the  Earl  of  Carys- 
fort,  K.P.,  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  K.G.  (1843),  Lord  Amherst  of 
Hackney(1859),  Lord  Burton,  K.C.V.O.,  Lord  Tweedmouth,K.T., 
the  Hon.  D.  P.  Bouverie,  the  Hon.  William  M.  Jervis,  Colonel 
the  Hon.  F.  C.  Morgan  (1865),  the  Hon.  E.  C.  A.  Pelham,  the 
Hon.  Frederick  Strutt,  the  Hon.  G.  R.  Vernon  (1861),  Major- 
General  Sir  Edward  W.  Blackett,  Bart.,  C.B.,  Sir  Daniel 
Cooper,  Bart.,  Sir  P.  Albert  Muntz,  Bart,  M.P.  (Member  of 
Council  1886-1905),  Sir  Richard  Green  Price,  Bart.,  Sir  A. 
Cowell  Stepney,  Bart.,  Sir  Tristram  T.  Tempest,  Bart.,  Sir 
George  Judd,  Sir  E.  Fitzgerald  Law,  K.C.M.G.,  Sir  Theodore 
