. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addreued ' Strangeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 372. Vol. XVII.] AUGUST 8, 188!). [Published Weekly.] #ftitnrial, faints, &t. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 9. —THE REV. H. B. PEEL. We feel that we must no longer delay the introduction to our readers of one to whom we consider the bee- keepers of the United Kingdom will ever fuel their deep indebtedness. The subject of the present sketch, the , R. Peel, for many years acted as the Honorary Secretary of the British Bee-
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addreued ' Strangeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 372. Vol. XVII.] AUGUST 8, 188!). [Published Weekly.] #ftitnrial, faints, &t. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 9. —THE REV. H. B. PEEL. We feel that we must no longer delay the introduction to our readers of one to whom we consider the bee- keepers of the United Kingdom will ever fuel their deep indebtedness. The subject of the present sketch, the , R. Peel, for many years acted as the Honorary Secretary of the British Bee-keepers' Associ- ation, and threw himself into this work with an ability, an energy, and a tact that could not be surpassed, sparing neither time, trouble, nor expense, in endeavouring to extend a knowledge of bee- keeping amongst all classes. To Mr. Peel is mainly due the establishment of County Associations affiliated with the Central in nearly every county in England and Wales, and to this organiz- ation must be attributed the advance of bee-keeping in this country ; and this work was prosecuted by him with the sincere desire of promot- ing the general welfare of the community. We subjoin some of the more salient points of his biography. The Rev. H. R. Peel was born on February 8th, 1831, at Canterbury. His father was the Very Rev. John Peel, , dean of Wor- cester, and for over forty years rector of Stone, who was the brother of the well-known statesman, Sir Robert Peel. The late Mr. Peel was therefore first cousin of Sir Robert Peel, and the Right Hon. Arthur W. Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons. He was educated at Eton College, Dr. Hawtrey being then Head-master. Having spent two years at Bremhill, in Wiltshire, as a private pupil of the Rev. Henry Drew, he proceeded to Christchurch College, where he remained until he had taken his degree of Bachelor and Master of Arts. Both at Eton and Oxford Mr. Peel took honours as a classical scholar, gaining a Fell Exhibitio
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