Wednesday , December 1), 1908. 
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President of the Society when the Annual Country Meeting 
was held at Preston in 1885. 
6. Sir Nigel Kingscote, who died in September last, 
resigned his position as a Trustee in 1906, and the Council 
then passed a resolution expressing great regret that he had 
been compelled by ill-health to retire from their deliberations, 
Sir Nigel, however, on several occasions since his retirement, 
attended the Monthly Council meetings as a Governor, and his 
great interest in the Society’s welfare was fully maintained up 
to the time of his decease. Elected a Member in 1854, Sir 
Nigel joined the Council in 1863, serving as President in 1878, 
when the Show was held at Bristol. He was Chairman of the 
Finance Committee of the Council for upwards of thirty years, 
and frequently acted as Steward at the Annual Shows. To 
quote the words of the Council’s resolution of 1906, “ his 
energy, tact, and earnestness on all occasions have been of 
inestimable value to the Society, while his courtesy and 
kindness have endeared him in a special degree to all his 
colleagues.” 
7. Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by 
death, during the present year, the Society has to deplore are 
the Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B., M.P., 
the Marquis of Linlithgow, K.T., the Earl of Rosse, Viscount 
Boyne, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Battersea, Lord Chesham, 
Lord Crawshaw, Lord Glenesk, Lord Herries, Lord Hotham, 
Lord Poltimoi’e, Lord Sackville, G.C.M.G., Lord St. Levan, the 
Hon. and Rev. E. V. Bligh, the Hon. Audley Blyth, the Hon. 
Arthur Cole, the Right Hon. Evelyn Ashley, General the Rt. 
Hon. Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., G.C.B., the Right Hon. W. S. 
Kenyon Slaney, M.P., Sir W. H. E. Chaytor, Bart., the Rev. 
Sir G. H. Cornewall, Bart., Sir J. H. Gibson Craig, Bart., Sir 
R. J. Dashwood, Bart., Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bart. 
(Life Governor), Sir H. Clarke Jervoise, Bart., Sir Elliott Lees, 
Bart., Sir R. H. Paget, Bart., Sir J. P. P. Radcliffe, Bart., Col. 
Sir R. G. Ellison, C.V.O., Sir John Evans, K.C.B., Mr. J. N. 
Attwater, Mr. Alfred Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Charles H. Bassett, 
Mr. Henry Boden, Mr. J. J. Bowman, Mr. James Braby 
(Member since 1854), Mr. T. Fowell Buxton, the Rev. 
Prebendary Berdmore Compton, Mr. William H. Cooke 
(Member since 1863), Mr. J. H. Cornish, Mr. Ralph Creyke, 
Mr. L. Morley Croesman, Mr. W. A. Dew, Count G. de Wezele 
(Member since 1857), Mr. Robert Fisher (Leconfield, Beverley), 
Mr. James Forshaw, Mr. J. J. Godwin, Mr. E. B. Hadley, 
Major-Gen. R. Hale, Captain F. Henniker, Mr. Sidney Hill, 
Mr. F. A. Hordern, Mr. William Hornsby, Mr. David Hume, 
Mr. John Jones (Dinarth Hall, Colwyn Bay), Mr. J. Llewellin 
(Haverfordwest), Mr. Edgar Lubbock, Mr. G. Martin (Member 
