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1890 Agricultural Instruction Committee, CheshireThe Instruction Committee was soon re-named the Worleston Dairy Institute.This was the start of what is now Reaseheath College, Nantwich.1914 Henhull Hall Farm was acquired.1919 Activities transferred to Reaseheath Hall and merged with the HolmesChapel operations (see 1895).1921 Re-named Cheshire School of Agriculture.1926 Worleston Dairy Institute was taken into the Cheshire School ofAgriculture.1967 The institution became Reaseheath College, currently farming 200 hafarm with dairy, pigs, sheep and arable, along with an equine unit.1890 Yorkshire College of ScienceAs well as operating at university level, until 1946 the college’s Department ofAgriculture also looked after education in Yorkshire at farm institute level inliaison with the County Council.1894 Manor Farm, Garforth was acquired and operations were known for atime as Manor Farm Agricultural College.1904 The farming activities became part of the University of Leeds - theuniversity farm, Headley Hall, later being taken over by Askham BryanCollege.1921 Fruit trial plots were acquired at Osgodby, near Selby.1948 Operations moved from Manor Farm to Askham Bryan.1891 Sexey’s School, SomersetA co-educational secondary school was set up in Bruton, driven by HenryHobhouse (1854-1937),* with agriculture as a key feature of the curriculum forboys (and domestic science for girls). A farm was acquired on Wells Way, nearto the main school, to support such studies and some scholarship places weresupported by the East Somerset Agricultural Society. The school is now a stateboarding school but no longer features agriculture.* Henry Hobhouse, MP (see also 1903 and 1910) is described in the OxfordDictionary of National Biography as ‘the archetypal public-spirited countrygentleman. No aspect of local welfare escaped him, but his favourite subjectswere education and agriculture.’ Given his favourite subjects, and his variousachievements therein, he deserves inclusion in this listing. Out of interest, hisfirst wife, Margaret, was a sister of Beatrice Webb.1892 Elements of Agriculture : A Text Book by William Fream (1854-1906) had beenproposed by the RASE. It was divided into three sections - The Soil, The Plant44
and The Animal. The first printing ran out on the day of publication and the bookwas released in 17th edition a century later in 1992.Fream offered Britain’s first course in agricultural entomology at DowntonAgricultural College (see 1880), later moving on to the University of Edinburghwhere he worked from 1890 until his death.1892 Gloucester County Dairy SchoolThis travelling school was run from The Barracks, Gloucester.1892 University of NottinghamThe Department of Agriculture, University College, Nottingham was established.1895 Work moved to the Midland Dairy Institute, Kingston-on-Soar set upwith funding from Nottingham, Derbyshire and Leicestershire CountyCouncils and staffed by the Department of Agriculture, UniversityCollege, Nottingham.1905 The name was changed to Midland Agricultural and Dairy College.1919 Agricultural operations of University College Nottingham moved toSutton Bonington. Dairy and poultry operations remained under theMidland Agricultural and Dairy College at Kingston.1946 Advisory staff moved to Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire.1948 The College was absorbed into the newly chartered University ofNottingham.2007 The School of Veterinary Medicine and Science opened, being the firstnew veterinary school to be opened in the UK for over 50 years.1892 Lancashire College of AgricultureAgricultural courses were established by the county council at the PrestonInstitute / Harris Institute in Avenham. This was the start of what becameMyerscough College.The College currently farms : Myerscough Lodge Farm (leased from the Duchyof Lancaster since 1969), Lee Farm (leased from the Duchy of Lancaster since2004), Gables Farm (the only part of the original holding bought by CountyCouncil in 1894), Light Ash Farm and Primrose Hill (leased from the Duchy ofLancaster since 2002).1894 Lancashire County Council Dairy School / Institute of Agriculture wasestablished at Hutton south of Preston.1948 Winmarleigh Hall was added to school.1967 Re-named Lancashire College of Agriculture.1969 College reopened at a new site at Myerscough.45
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Page 5: ContentsIntroduction 7A Chronology
Page 8 and 9: key government reports which have b
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Page 12 and 13: 1739 Kilsyth, LanarkshireA half acr
Page 14 and 15: 1965 The major annual agricultural
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Page 20 and 21: 1846 Taken over by the Farmer’s M
Page 22 and 23: 1836 A Select Committee was called
Page 24 and 25: e found for the production of meat
Page 26 and 27: 1912 Paper by J C Newsham, Basing,
Page 28 and 29: 1874 The Agricultural Gazette start
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Page 32 and 33: 1868 Agricultural and Horticultural
Page 34 and 35: 1919 The Welsh Plant Breeding Stati
Page 36 and 37: 1875 Aberdeenshire Agricultural Ass
Page 38 and 39: 1878 The Chemistry of the Farm by R
Page 40 and 41: 1949 The College acquired the Lephi
Page 42 and 43: 1889 Horticultural College, Swanley
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Page 48 and 49: 1895 Dauntsey’s Agricultural Scho
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Page 52 and 53: 1952 The Plant Breeding Institute,
Page 54 and 55: 1898 University of London1898 The S
Page 56 and 57: 1946 The Sourhope Experimental Hill
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1955 Ministry of Agriculture, Fishe
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1973 Report on Agricultural Educati
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1889 Abbotsholme School, Uttoxeter1
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1981 Biomathematics and Statistics
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1921 Corn Production Acts (Repeal)
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1930 Macaulay Institute for Soil Re
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1921 Oaklands, College, Hertfordshi
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2011 The Future of Food and Farming
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1915 Women's Institute1903 Workers
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