Monthly Council , December 9, 1908. 
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C., the Duke of 
Devonshire (President) in the Chair : — 
Present: — -Trustees. — Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Lord Middleton, Sir John 
H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. J. 
Marshall Dugdale, the Right Hon. A. B. Fellowes, the Earl of Jersey, G.C. B., 
the Earl of Northbrook. 
Other Members of the Council. — Mr. Charles R. W. Adeane, Mr. T. L. 
Aveling, Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. R. G. Carden, 
Mr. Richardson Carr, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. H. Dudding, Mr. J. 
T. C. Eadie, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., 
Mr. E. A. Hamlyn, Mr. J. Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. 
W. Hobbs, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Sir Charles V. 
Knightley, Bart., Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, 
Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. F. Reynard, 
Mr. C. C. Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. W. Scoby, Mr. E. W. Shackle, 
Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. H. Tallent, 
Mr. George Taylor, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner; Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, 
and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
The following Members of the Gloucester Local Committee were also 
present : — Mr. S. Aitken and Mr. M. W. Colchester- Wemyss. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday, 
November 4, 1908, were taken as read and approved. 
The Earl of Derby, G.C.V.O., C.B., and Sir Edward Stern were elected 
Governors, and thirty-four duly nominated candidates were admitted into the 
Society as Members under By-law 2. 
The President, before proceeding with the ordinary business of the 
meeting, mentioned that he had received a communication expressing Lady 
Kingscote’s thanks for the letter of sympathy he had sent her on behalf of the 
Council, and saying how much she appreciated what had been said about her 
husband. 
The Council would all have heard with deep regret, the President 
continued, of the death, at Algiers, on November 28, 1908, of Mr. John 
Thornton, whose connection with the Society had extended over a very long 
period. He had been elected a Member in 1869, and became a Member of 
Council in August, 1905, as one of the representatives of the Division of 
London. He had served as a Member of the Stock Prizes Committee, and, as 
they all knew, had acted as auctioneer of cattle in the Society’s Showyard each 
year since the inauguration of the auction sales in 1903. He was sure that not 
only the Members of the Council, but every one connected with agriculture in 
any form whatsoever, felt what a very -great loss they had sustained by the 
death of Mr. Thornton. 
The President added that Members of Council would also regret to learn 
of the death of Mr. George H. Sanday, another old Member of the Society. 
He became a Member in 1868, was elected to the Council in the year 1874, and 
was made a Vice-President in 1902. He had acted on many occasions as a 
Steward at the Annual Shows, and had served for a considerable period on the 
Stock Prizes Committee, of which he became Chairman in 1890, a position he 
retained until he was compelled, on account of iil-health, to resign his seat upon 
the Council in April, 1905. Mr. Sanday’s death would be very deeply felt by 
his old colleagues on the Council. 
Mr. William Harrison introduced a deputation from the City of 
Liverpool, composed of the Lord Mayor, Sir Charles Petrie, Alderman Simon 
Jude, Councillor Lea, and supported by Mr. John White (Chairman of the 
Council of the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society) and Mr. H. W. 
Worsley-Taylor, K.C. (a Vice-President of that Society). The Lord Mayor 
of Liverpool said they had come as a deputation, empowered by the City of 
