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[[Josiah Parkes]], M. Inst. C.E., was appointed consulting engineer | [[Josiah Parkes]], M. Inst. C.E., was appointed consulting engineer | ||
On the retirement of Mr Parkers,[[Charles | On the retirement of Mr Parkers,[[Charles Edwards Amos]] was appointed Consulting Engineers to the [[Royal Agricultural Society of England|Royal Agricultural Society]] | ||
1870 Mr. Amos relinquished the post of Consulting Engineer after the Oxford Show in 1870 | 1870 Mr. Amos relinquished the post of Consulting Engineer after the Oxford Show in 1870 |
Revision as of 12:19, 21 January 2015

Commonly refered to as the RASE, the English Agricultural Society was founded in 1838 and two years later it was incorporated as The Royal Agricultural Society of England. It was pre-dated by the Bath and West Society (1777), Highland Society (1784) and the Smithfield Club (1798).
1838 May 9th. Founding meeting held at the Freemasons' Tavern with Earl Spencer in the Chair. [1]
1838 December 18th. First full meeting of the committee and members held at their rooms in Cavendish square. [2]
1839 Philip Pusey was appointed Chairman of the Journal Committee.
1840 Royal Agricultural Society Meeting.
Josiah Parkes, M. Inst. C.E., was appointed consulting engineer
On the retirement of Mr Parkers,Charles Edwards Amos was appointed Consulting Engineers to the Royal Agricultural Society
1870 Mr. Amos relinquished the post of Consulting Engineer after the Oxford Show in 1870
See Royal Agricultural Society Journal
Shows
- 1839 Oxford
- 1840 Cambridge
- 1841 Liverpool - Falkner's Fields.
- 1842 Bristol
- 1843 Derby
- 1844 Southampton
- 1845 Shrewsbury
- 1846 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1847 Northampton
- 1848 York
- 1849 Norwich
- 1850 Exeter
- 1851 Windsor
- 1852 Lewes
- 1853 Windsor
- 1854 Lincoln
- 1855 Carlisle
- 1856 Chelmsford
- 1857 Salisbury
- 1858 Chester
- 1859 Warwick
- 1860 Canterbury
- 1861 Leeds
- 1862 Battersea
- 1863 Worcester
- 1864 Newcastle
- 1865 Plymouth
- 1866 Show cancelled because of an outbreak of Rinderpest
- 1867 Bury St. Edmunds
- 1868 Leicester
- 1869 Manchester
- 1870 Oxford and Glasgow.
- 1871 Cardiff and Wolverhampton
- 1872 Cardiff
- 1873 Hull
- 1874 Bedford
- 1875 Taunton
- 1876 Birmingham
- 1877 Liverpool
- 1878 Bristol
- 1879 Kilburn
- 1880 Carlisle
- 1881 Derby
- 1882 Reading
- 1883 York
- 1884 Shrewsbury
- 1885 Preston
- 1886 Norwich
- 1887 Newcastle
- 1888 Nottingham
- 1889 Windsor
- 1890 Plymouth
- 1891 Doncaster
- 1892 Warwick
- 1893 Chester
- 1894 Cambridge
- 1895 Darlington
- 1896 Leicester
- 1897 Manchester
- 1898 Birmingham
- 1899 Maidstone
- 1900 York
- 1901 Cardiff
- 1902 Carlisle
- 1903 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1904 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1905 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1906 Derby
- 1907 Lincoln
- 1908 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1909 Gloucester
- 1910 Liverpool
- 1911 Norwich
- 1912 Doncaster
- 1913 Bristol
- 1914 Shrewsbury
- 1915 Nottingham
- 1916 Manchester
- 1917 No show
- 1918 No show
- 1919 Cardiff
- 1920 Darlington
- 1921 Derby
- 1922 Cambridge
- 1923 Newcastle
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- 1927 Newport
- 1928
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931 Warwick
- 1932
- 1933
- 1934 Ipswich
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937 Wolverhampton
- 1938 Cardiff
- 1939 Windsor
See Also
Sources of Information
- The History of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 1839-1939 by Professor J. A. Scott Watson.