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It further appeared that nearly 5,000 influential persons had registered themselvesas promoters of the proposed Exhibition.
Upon the presentation of these reports to Her Majesty’s Government, theQueen was pleased to issue the following Commission, which was published inthe London Gazette of 3rd January, 1850 :—
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Victoria, by the grace of God , of the United Kingdom of Great Britain andIreland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: To Our most dearly-beloved Consort His RoyalHighness Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Duke of Saxony , Prince ofSaxe-Coburg and Gotha, Knight of our Most Noble Order of the Garter , and Field-Marshal in Our army;—Our right trusty and right entirely well-beloved cousin and Coun-cillor Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Knight of Our MostNoble Order of the Garter; Our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin William Earlof Rosse, Knight of Our Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick ; Our right trusty and rightwell-beloved cousins and Councillors, Granville George Earl Granville, and FrancisEarl of Ellesmere; Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Edward GeoffreyLord Stanley; Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillors, John Russell (commonlycalled Lord John Russell), Sir Robert Peel , Baronet, Henry Labouciiere, andWilliam Ewart Gladstone ; Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Archibald Gallo-way, Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Major-Generalin Our Army in the East Indies, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East IndiaCompany,* * * § or the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company for thetime being; Sir Richard Westmacott, Knight; Sir Charles Lyell , Knight, Presidentof the Geological Society of London, or the President of the Geological Society of London for the [time being ;f Thomas Baring, Esquire; Charles Barry , Esquire; ThomasBazley, Esquire; Richard Cobden, Esquire; William Cubitt , Esquire, President ofthe Institution of Civil Engineers, or the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the time being; Charles Lock Eastlaice, Esquire; j Thomas Field Gibson,Esquire; John Gott, Esquire; Samuel Jones Loyd, Esquire; § Philip Pusey , Esquire;and William Thompson, Esquire, greeting:
Whereas the Society for the Promotion of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, incor-porated by Our Royal Charter, of which Our most dearly-beloved Consort the PrinceAlbert is President, have of late years instituted Annual Exhibitions of the Works ofBritish Art and Industry, and have proposed to establish an enlarged Exhibition of the Worksof Industry of all Nations, to be holden in London in the year 1851, at which Prizes andMedals, to the value of at least Twenty Thousand Pounds Sterling, shall be awarded tothe Exhibitors of the most meritorious works then brought forward; and have invested inthe Names of Onr right trusty and entirely-beloved cousin Spencer Joshua AlwyneMarquess of Northampton ; Our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin and CouncillorGeorge William Frederick Earl of Clarendon, Knight of Our Most Noble Order of theGarter; Our trusty and well-beloved Sir John Peter Boileau , Baronet, and JamesCourthope Peache, Esquire, the sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, to be awarded inPrizes and Medals as aforesaid: and have appointed our trusty and well-beloved ArthurKett Barclay, Esquire, William Cotton, Esquire, Sir John William Lubbock ,Baronet, Samuel Morton Peto, Esquire, and Baron Lionel de Rothschild , to be the
* At Ms death in 1850, he was succeeded by John Shepherd, Esq.
t Succeeded by William Hopkins, Esquire, M.A., Cambridge, though Sir C. Lyell stillremains a Commissioner by election under the Royal Charter afterwards granted.
J Now Sir C. L. Eastlaice, President of the Royal Academy .
§ Now Baron Ovekstone.
Royal Commission appointed