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Monthly Council , June 4 , 1913 . 
candidates who polled the largest number of votes in their class, and who 
would not this year receive grants from any other fund in connection with the 
Koyal Agricultural Benevolent Institution. 
. The Secretary read a letter from the Meteorological Office stating that 
it was proposed to issue during the forthcoming harvest daily telegraphic fore- 
casts of the weather to anjnme desirous of receiving them upon payment of the 
cost of the telegrams. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, June 4, 1913. 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 , 1913. 
At a Monthly Council held at 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C., the Earl 
of Northbrook (President) in the chair : — 
Present:— Trustees— Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis 
the Earl of Coventry, the Duke of Devonshire, G.C.V.O., Sir John H Thorold’ 
Bart. ’ 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Adeane, Sir Bichard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. Percy 
Crutchley, Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, the Right Hon. Sir Ailwyn E. Fellowes, 
K.C.Y.O., Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., C.Y.O., the Hon. Cecil T. Parker the 
Earl of Yarborough. 
Other Members of the Council. — Capt. Clive Behrens, Mr. E. W. Betts Mr. 
Henry Dent Brocklehurst, Maj.-Gen. J. F. Brocklehurst, C.Y.O C B Mr 
Davis Brown, Mr.. J. T. C. Eadie, Mr. Arthur E. Evans, Mr. James Falconer' 
Lord Harlech, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Lord Hastings, Sir Arthur 
G. Hazlerigg, Bart., Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. Arthur Hiscock, Mr. W. F. Ingram 
Mr. J. L. Luddington, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W A ? 
May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. G. Norris Midwood, Mr. W. Nocton, Mr. R. G. 
Patterson, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. F. Reynard, the Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon, K.G., Mr. C. Coltman Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. H. H. Smith Mr 
C. W. Tindall, Mr. E. Y. Y. Wheeler, and Mr. Louis C. Wrigley. 
Governor. — Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P. 
The following Members of the Bristol Local Committee were also present •— 
The Lord Mayor of Bristol, Sir Frank Wills, Mr. Peter Addie, Alderman C. A 
Hayes, Mr. Sidney Humphries, Mr. Samuel Kidner, Mr. H. L. Riseley Mr' 
E. J. Taylor (Town Clerk), Mr. Eldred G. F. Walker. Mr. H. W. Seccombe 
Wills, and Mr. George Nichols (Hon. Local Secretary). 
At the commencement of the proceedings, the President read a letter 
which had been received from Mr. Heber Martin, expressing, on behalf of him- 
self and his brothers and sisters, their thanks for the expression of the 
Council’s regret at the death of Mr. Joseph Martin. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on May 7, 1913 were 
taken as read and approved. 
Major P. G. Shewell, The Mount, Cleeve Hill, Glos., was elected a 
Governor, and ninety-five duly nominated candidates were elected Members. 
Sir John Thorold, in presenting the Report of the Committee of 
Selection, formally moved “That the name of the Earl of Powis be suggested 
to the Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members in December for 
election as President for 1914.” The Earl of Powis, he said, had been a 
Member of the Society since 1887, had become a Governor in 1891, and one 
of his predecessors had been President in the years 1860-1. The Committee 
felt sure that his Lordship’s great interest in the district in which next year’s 
Show would be held would make him a most excellent President. 
Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones had great pleasure in seconding the nomination 
and stated that Lord Powis’ family had been very closely connected with the 
Society from the time of its formation, bis great-uncle, the Hon. Robert Clive 
having been one of the signatories to the petition to the Crown for the Charter 
of Incorporation. Mr. Clive had acted on the Council for some years but died 
