Report of Committee of Selection. 
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Brampton Bryan. The Committee 
had the pleasure to announce that 
Sir Gilbert Greenall had consented 
to undertake the duties of Honorary 
Director of the Derby Show, and the 
Committee formally recommended his 
appointment. They recommended 
also the appointment of Mr. Ernest 
Mathews as Steward of Dairying, and 
Mr. J. T. C. Eadie as Steward of 
F orage. The Committee recommended 
the election of Sir Ernest Clarke as an 
Honorary Member of the Society on 
his retirement from the office of 
Secretary. 
Sir John Thoeold, in moving that 
Sir Ernest Clarke be elected an 
Honorary Member of the Society on 
his retirement from the office of 
Secretary, in recognition of his services 
to the Society during the eighteen and 
a half years that he had held that 
office, said chat he did not think 
words of his were necessary to re- 
commend this motion to the Council. 
Having been on the .Special Com- 
mittee which elected Sir Ernest Clarke 
in 1887, and having worked with him 
up to the present time, he wished to 
testify to the very great obligation of 
himself and every Member of that 
Council to Sir Ernest for the great 
services he had rendered to the Council, 
and for the valuable assistance he had 
rendered to them all as individuals, 
never sparing himself in time or out 
of time, and always having the 
interests of the Society as his one and 
only object. In conferring the Society’s 
Honorary Membership upon Sir 
Ernest, they would permanently 
attach him to the Society in whose 
interests he had spent the best years 
of his life. (Hear, hear.) 
Sir Nigel Kingscote said he had 
the greatest pleasure in seconding this 
proposal. Having been on the Council 
during the whole of Sir Ernest’s 
period of office, he wished to express 
his high sense of obligation to him for 
all that he had done for the Society. 
In matters of difficulty Sir Ernest’s 
clear mind and good judgment had 
been of the greatest help to them, and 
he had rendered the Society most able 
assistance in every way. He regretted 
Sir Ernest’s departure very much, and 
he hoped that his future would be 
what they all could wish. 
The President said that he felt he 
could add nothing to what had been 
said so ably by Sir John Thorold and 
Sir Nigel Kingscote, except to say 
that during the short time that he had 
filled the chair he recognised to the 
full the ready assistance which Sir 
Ernest Clarke had given him on all 
occasions. 
The motion having been carried 
unanimously, 
Sir Ernest Clarke, whose rising 
was greeted with applause, said that 
he was deeply touched at the generous 
words with regard to himself and 
his services to the Society which had 
been spoken by the two distinguished 
Members of the Council who had 
moved and seconded the resolution, 
and who had been such kind friends 
to himself during his long association 
with the Society. His philosophy 
failed him at the crucial moment when 
he reflected that he was now standing 
for the last time in the familiar place 
that by the favour of the old Council 
had been his for the last eighteen and 
a half years. Very many changes had 
taken place in the interval, and of 
the Members of the Council whom he 
had first met as a complete stranger 
to them all in June, 1887, only eight 
were still Members of the governing 
body. Time had passed so quickly by 
that it was difficult to realise that he 
had served the Society longer than 
his predecessor as Secretary, and had 
been officially associated with more 
Royal Shows than even their late 
friend Sir Jacob Wilson had been as 
Honorary Director. He desired to 
thank the Council from the bottom of 
his heart for their constant kindness 
and consideration to him in the 
carrying out of the heavy and re-„ 
sponsible work which had to be fulfilled 
by the occupant of the honourable 
office which he now relinquished. 
He also wished to express his cordial 
thanks to the colleagues who had 
worked with him and under him for 
the loyal assistance they had always 
given to him and to the Society. The 
Council had been good enough to pay 
him a rare compliment, and one which 
he highly appreciated, by electing him 
an Honorary Member, and thus, as Sir 
John Thorold had well said, attaching 
him to the Society for the rest of his 
