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The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture. It was established in 1838 with the motto "Practice with Science" and received its

Royal Charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, bu ...

from

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...

in 1840. RASE is based in

Stoneleigh Park Stoneleigh Park, known between 1963 and 2013 as the National Agricultural Centre, is a business park located south-west of the village of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England. It is home to the Stoneleigh conference and exhibition centre. Histor ...

, Warwickshire.

Shows

From its early days the society has held regular exhibitions around the country (called the Royal Show). The show was held in

(previously known as the National Agricultural Centre or NAC) near Stoneleigh in

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

. An early venue for the show was at Park Royal, in north-west London. The last Royal Show took place in 2009. Since then, the Society has concentrated on transfer of scientific knowledge to agricultural practitioners.

Journal

The first editor of the ''Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England'', founded in 1854, was

Philip Pusey Philip Pusey (25 June 1799 – 9 July 1855) was a reforming agriculturalist, a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) and a friend and follower of Sir Robert Peel. Life Pusey stood for election in Rye at a by-election in 1830 and was originally declare ...

, who had also been prominent in founding the society. After his death in 1855, the editing passed to H. S. Thompson,

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, FRS (25 May 1809 – 29 May 1898) was a British educational reformer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1886 initially as a Tory and later, after an eighteen-year gap, as a Li ...

and

Chandos Wren-Hoskyns Chandos Wren-Hoskyns BA, JP, DL (15 February 1812 – 28 November 1876) was an English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author. Not all of his views are shared today. Family Born Chandos Hoskyns, as the second son of Sir Hungerford Ho ...

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Awards

The society makes a number of regular awards. Bledisloe Gold Medal for Landowners, instituted in 1958 by

Viscount Bledisloe Viscount Bledisloe, of Lydney in the County of Gloucestershire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the Conservative politician Charles Bathurst, 1st Baron Bledisloe, upon his retirement as Governor-Gen ...

, is awarded for showing outstanding achievement in the successful land management and development of an English agricultural estate. Some recipients: The National Agricultural Award, originally established in 1964 as the Massey Ferguson National Agricultural Award and adopted by the society in 1999, is presented to recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of agriculture in the United Kingdom. The Research Medal for Research Work of Benefit to Agriculture, introduced in 1954, recognises research work of outstanding merit, carried out in the United Kingdom of benefit to agriculture. The award is offered annually to people engaged in active research and is accompanied by a prize of 300 guineas. The Technology Award recognises groups working in a commercial environment, which have applied scientific advance into technology through the development of a product or process. The medal is accompanied by a prize of 300 guineas (£315 sterling).

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