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holding  of  General  Meetings  were  drafted.  In  February,  1906, 
at  a Monthly  Council  Meeting,  the  President,  Mr.  Cornwallis, 
proposed,  and  Prince  Christian  of  Schleswig-Holstein  seconded, 
a resolution  of  condolence  with  the  King  and  Queen  on  the 
occasion  of  the  death  of  the  King  of  Denmark,  and  proposed 
to  record  the  Council’s  “ deep  sense  of  sorrow.”  The  resolution 
was  unanimously  carried  in  silence,  all  standing.  On  June  28, 
of  the  same  year,  the  King,  accompanied  by  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire,  Lord  High  Steward  of  the  Borough,  visited  the 
Society’s  Show  at  Derby.  He  was  received  by  the  President 
(Mr.  Cornwallis),  and  the  members  of  Council  of  the  Society, 
with  whom  he  lunched  after  visiting  various  departments  of 
the  Show,  and  inspecting  army  veterans  of  the  Nottingham- 
shire and  Derbyshire  Veteran  Societies. 
King  Efdward  visited  the  Lincoln  Show  in  1907,  together 
with  the  Grand  Duke  of  Hesse,  and  inspected  vai’ious  objects 
of  interest  in  the  Showyard,  including  the  splendid  horti- 
cultural exhibition  arranged  by  the  Local  Committee.  At 
both  this  Show  and  at  the  one  held  two  years  later  at 
Gloucester,  the  King  had  arranged  for  his  Indian  Orderly 
Officers  to  attend. 
His  Majesty’s  next  visit  to  a Show  of  the  Society  was  on 
Wednesday,  June  23,  1909,  at  Gloucester,  and  this  was,  un- 
fortunately, to  be  his  last.  Speaking  at  the  meeting  next 
day,  the  President  (the  Earl  of  Jersey)  said  that  the  King’s 
visit  had  given  “ great  pleasure  and  satisfaction  to  everyone 
connected  with  Agriculture.  That  visit  was  a further  proof, 
not  only  of  his  Majesty’s  interest  in  every  part  of  his  dominions, 
but  of  his  great  interest  in  Agriculture,  and  of  the  leading 
part  he  took  in  it.  His  Majesty  set  an  example  to  everyone 
as  to  how  success  could  be  gained,  and  never  failed  to  take 
an  interest  in  the  animals  which  he  exhibited,  as  was  ex- 
emplified on  the  previous  day,  when  he  went  round  and 
looked  at  his  prize  animals.” 
Although  five  short  months  of  the  year  1910  had  not  been 
completed  before  the  Royal  demise  occurred,  Edward  VII. 
had  another  special  and  signal  mark  of  favour  to  confer  upon 
the  Society. 
It  is  obvious  that,  with  all  the  many  urgent  calls  upon 
a monarch’s  time,  it  would  be  impossible  for  all  the  affairs 
of  a great  Kingdom  and  a vast  Empire  to  be  carried  on,  did 
the  King  devote  to  any  particular  body  of  his  subjects  more 
than  their  fair  share  of  his  Royal  favour.  Nevertheless, 
when  it  was  decided  to  hold  the  Society’s  Show  for  1911  in 
Norwich,  the  capital  of  the  county  in  which  the  King  had 
lived  so  long,  and  where  he  had  passed  many  of  the  hours 
which  he  had  found  it  possible  to  devote  to  his  private  affairs, 
