Mr. H. Herbert Smith. 
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and the Special Committees. A business man of exceptional 
shrewdness, he had unbounded faith in the policy of a 
migratory show-yard, and probably most members of the 
Society are aware that when the question of abandoning the 
permanent ground at Park Royal was under discussion, he 
guaranteed to bear any loss which might attend a return to the 
migratory principle during the first few years. The present 
strength of the Society’s position is sufficient evidence of the 
soundness of his judgment. 
The resumption of the Farm Prize Competitions, which 
now form so popular a feature in connection with the annual 
country meeting, was likewise due to his generosity, for he 
undertook to provide for the whole of the expenses in connec- 
tion with them until the Society should be in a position to take 
over the liability. 
Sir Richard married, in 1872, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of 
Mr. Elias Ashmole Ashmall, of Hammerwich, Lichfield, who 
survives him. He was created a baronet in the year 1905 in 
recognition of his services to agriculture, and he is succeeded 
by his son, Richard Ashmole Cooper, M.P. for Walsall. He 
also leaves another son and three daughters. 
C. S. 0. 
MR. H. HERBERT SMITH. 
Mr. Henry Herbert Smith, who died on October 19, 1913, 
was the son of Sir William Smith, LL.D., H.C.L., F.R.S., 
Editor of the Quarterly Review , and was born in the year 
1851. He joined as partner the late Mr. William Bryan 
Wood, surveyor and valuer, of Chippenham, in 1879, and 
in 1881 became personal agent for the Marquess of Lans- 
downe’s Wiltshire estates, a position he held until the time 
of his death. Mr. Smith possessed a practical knowledge 
of agriculture and was a Vice-President of the Surveyor’s 
Institution, a Commissioner of the Lea Valley Drainage, and 
Gilbey Lecturer on the History and Economics of Agriculture 
at the Cambridge University, 1900 — 1903. He was also 
associated with many other institutions, including the Wilt- 
shire Bacon Curing Factory, of which he was the Chairman 
and Managing Director. In addition to contributing many 
articles on agricultural questions to the Quarterly Review and 
Nineteenth Century , Mr. Smith published a book entitled, 
The Principles of Landed Estate Management. He became a 
Member of the Society in the year 1874, and was elected the 
Member of Council for the division of Wiltshire in 1905. At 
the time of his death he was a member of the Veterinary Sub- 
Committee and had taken a very active part in the enquiry 
