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Sir Nigel Kingscote. 
Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and found in him an ardent 
sympathiser in the trouble which defence of the Finance 
Committee’s position had involved to Sir Nigel for nine or 
ten months past. Emboldened by His Grace’s support of 
the original proposal, Sir Nigel put away from him as irksome 
any suggestion of a middle course. To my amazement, he got 
up and made a fighting speech, and being supported strenuously 
by the Duke, the original resolution was carried by a three- 
fourths majority, and has never since been questioned. 
Another institution of public usefulness in which Sir Nigel 
took a particular interest was the Royal Veterinary College in 
College Street, Camden Town, of which he became a Governor 
in 1873. He became a Vice-President in 1878, and in 1887, on 
the retirement of the late Mr. C. N. Newdegate, he was elected 
Chairman of the Governors and a Trustee of the College. He 
took an active part in obtaining for the College the charter of 
incorporation granted to it in 1875, and it was largely owing 
to his exertions and influence that in 1905 the Government, 
through the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, made an 
annual grant of 800Z. in aid of the College funds. The system 
of education pursued at the College has been very considerably 
extended and improved since the date of Sir Nigel’s election 
as a Governor. Every step in advance had his cordial 
approval and assistance, even when through the raising the 
standard of the Matriculation examination the number of 
students entering the College was reduced. 
In 1891, during Sir Nigel’s Chairmanship, the centenary of 
the foundation of the College took place. On that occasion the 
College was visited by His Majesty the King, then Prince of 
Wales, who was accompanied by the President of the College, 
His late Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Under Sir 
Nigel’s guidance a thorough inspection was made of the 
College premises, and the opportunity was taken of formally 
opening a new range of buildings which had been erected at 
a cost of some 10,000?., and which included a new lecture 
theatre, a museum, a library and reading room for the students, 
and other class rooms, &c. In the erection of these buildings 
Sir Nigel had taken a very active part, and it was largely due 
to his exertions that the opening ceremony was brought to so 
successful an issue. 
In 1903 the Governors of the College resolved that the 
University of London he approached with the request that the 
University would institute a degree in veterinary science. 
This was a subject in which Sir Nigel took the warmest 
interest and which he furthered by every means in his power. 
A degree in veterinary science has now been instituted by 
the University, for which several students of the College are 
