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Mr. Martin J. Sutton. 
undertaken by the Sub-Committee on the question of the 
disease of Swine Fever. Mr. Smith, who married Emily, 
daughter of Mr. Arthur Hall, of the East Indian Civil Service, 
leaves a son (who was a partner with his father) and two 
daughters. 
T. M. 
MR. MARTIN J. SUTTON. 
Mr. Martin John Sutton, although not a Member of the 
Council at the time of his decease, was a representative of the 
Society on the National Agricultural Examination Board, a 
body composed of representatives of the Highland and Agri- 
cultural Society of Scotland, and the Royal Agricultural Society 
of England, and it is a melancholy fact that only on the 
Monday previous to his death he was elected Chairman of the 
Board. He had been a Member of the Society since the year 
1878, and subsequently in 1882 became a Governor. He was 
elected a Member of Council in 1883, and continued to 
hold that office until the year 1904. 
While taking an interest in the livestock section of agricul- 
ture, Mr. Sutton will be better remembered by the very valuable 
services he rendered in connection with the Journal, and the 
Educational work of the Society. In June, 1900, Mr. Sutton 
attended, as the Society's delegate, the International Congress 
in Agricultural Education which was held in Paris, and at 
which he read a paper dealing with the Society’s efforts to 
promote agricultural education in this country. 
In many other directions Mr. Sutton took an active interest 
in agriculture, and was a Vice-President of the Smithfield Club. 
He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and other foreign 
Orders had been conferred upon him. On the occasion of the 
General Meeting of Members of the Society held at the Royal 
Agricultural Hall on Wednesday, December 10, 1913, Mr. Sutton 
moved a vote of thanks to the Earl of Northbrook, the President, 
for his services during the year of his Presidency. 
As the head of the firm of Sutton and Sons, of Reading, Mr. 
Sutton possessed great business capacity, which was apparent 
when matters of importance were under discussion at meetings 
at which he was present. 
Mr. Sutton was born in 1850, and died on December 14, 
1913. He was twice married, and leaves two sons and a 
daughter by the first marriage. 
T. M. 
