The earliest evidence of a poultry competition at the Show can be found in the prize schedule for the 1858 Show, which was published in the Empire newspaper in January that year. The classes listed for Poultry were:   Dorking - Cock and two Hens Cochin China - Cock...

Barron Field   (1786 – 1846) [Image Courtesy State Library NSW] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1822-24 A direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, Barron Field was the son of a London surgeon and apothecary. He trained as a barrister, was a...

David Johnston (1798 – 1863) [Image courtesy State Archives NSW] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1861-62 David Johnston was the third son of Lt. Col. George Johnston who is said to have been the first man ashore in Port Jackson and who famously deposed...

E.S Playfair (1894 – 1965) President Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1960 - 1965 Edmund Strathmore (Strath) Playfair was born in Sydney. He enlisted in the First World War and served with distinction until badly injured in 1918. As a third generation...

Earl of Belmore, Somerset Lowry-Corry  (1835 – 1913) [Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1871 - 1872 Born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Somerset Lowry-Corry became the fourth Earl...

Edward Cox       (1805 – 1868) [ Image courtesy Australian Royalty] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1864-65 Edward Cox (brother of George Cox, also a Society president) was born on the Hawkesbury in 1805, the youngest of seven...

George Cox        (1795 – 1868) Image from John Broadley, courtesy of the Cox family, Burrundulla, Mudgee] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1862-63 George Cox and his brother Edward (also a Society president) were sons...

James Macarthur            (1798 – 1867) [Image courtesy SLNSW] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1867 James Macarthur was born at Elizabeth Farm, the fourth son of John Macarthur. Groomed from an early...

Lord Augustus Loftus                   (1817 – 1904) [Image Courtesy State Library NSW] President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1879 - 1881 Born in Bristol, Lord Loftus...

N.S. Davidson                  (1916 – 2000) President Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1979 - 1988 Norman Seymour (Jim) Davidson grew up in the district of Young where...