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JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
SIR JACOB WILSON, K.C.V.O. 
Born, November 16, 1836. Died, July 11, 1905. 
It is with considerable diffidence, and with a feeling that the 
work might well have been entrusted to more capable hands, 
that I enter upon the task of writing this notice ; but at the 
request of the Chairman of the Journal Committee, based upon 
his wish that the duty should be undertaken by one who 
resided in Sir Jacob Wilson’s immediate neighbourhood, I felt 
that I could not decline to make at least an attempt to chronicle 
a few of the leading incidents relating to the life and work of 
one whom I have known and honoured from my earliest days. 
Through the death of Sir Jacob Wilson, which took place 
at his residence, Chillingham Barns, Northumberland, on 
July 11 last, the Royal Agricultural Society has been deprived 
of one of its most influential supporters and firmest friends, 
as well as of the oldest member of its Council, with the single 
exception of Sir Nigel Kingscote ; while the cause of agriculture 
generally in Great Britain has to deplore the loss of one whose 
labours on its behalf will not readily be forgotten. 
The subject of this memoir was born at Crackenthorpe Hall, 
Westmorland, on November 16, 1836, and was the elder son 
of Mr. Joseph Wilson, who farmed extensively in that county ; 
his mother was a daughter of Mr. Joseph Bowstead, of Beck 
Bank, Cumberland. 
Mr. Jacob Wilson (as he then was) received his early 
education at Long Marton, Westmorland, under the Rev. 
William Shepherd ; from there he went to London and 
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