a short history of agricultural education and research

Although strongly supported by Viscount Spencer, his anti-Corn Law stanceprecluded his formal involvement, such association being likely to harm theproject.1914 The college closed at the start of WWI, to be re-opened in 1922.The College currently farms at Coates Manor and Harnhill Manor (491 ha in all)with further access to dairy facilities at Kemble and Leaze Farms and equineoperations at Fossehill Farm.1847 Gardeners’ and Farmers’ JournalThe journal was established under the first editorship of M M Milburn, a landagent and secretary to the Yorkshire Society.1854 The journal ceased to carry such serious articles after Milburn’s death.1880 The title was absorbed in the Mark Lane Express (see 1832).1848 Digest of evidence taken before a committee of the House of Commons appointedto inquire into the agricultural customs of England and Wales in respect totenant-right compiled by Henry Corbet (see 1832) and William Shaw (1797-1853).1849 Philanthropic Society Farm School, Redhill, SurreyThe school was established on 133 acres, which grew over the years to 350 acres,with an original aim of keeping boys out of trouble and giving them training forgainful employment, in the form of agriculture. After the Reformatory SchoolAct 1854 most intake came directly from the courts such that they were boys whohad already been in trouble. There were around 250 such boys by the mid-1850s.In later years agriculture took a lesser role and ceased as a core trade by the1940s, its place being taken by carpentry, tailoring and shoe-mending. The farmdid, however, continue to be run to supply produce and an educational resourceuntil the school’s final closure in 1988.1851 The Agriculturalist’s Calculator - A Series of Tables for the Use of All Engagedin Agriculture or the Management of Landed Property published by Blackie &Co.1852 Talpa, or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm, An Agricultural Fragment was thepublication in book form of the writings of Chandos Wren Hoskyns (1812-1876) first published in the Agricultural Gazette (see 1844) from 1848. WrenHoskyns was born plain Hoskyns, adding the Wren when he married the heiressto the Wroxhall estate in Warwickshire, Theodosia Wren, a descendant of Sir29