![]() ![]() ![]() And also a further sum of £500 for the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs and Cats on the same conditions. The Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have been offered by Richard Barlow Kennett, Esq, Peterfield, Hants, £500 towards the General Funds of the Society, provided they can obtain contributions the same amount within a year. ![]() They passed the following resolution : Resolved-That believing the establishment of a dogs and cats home and the fuller development of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals are of more urgent consequence and importance at the present moment, and considering the many pressing claims on the public for the relief of distress and other matters, the committee are of opinion they could not consistently make an appeal for the sum necessary to enable them to claim Mr Kennett’s generous offer for this society, and, therefore, forego it in favour of the two other objects named by him, viz-The establishment of dogs’ and cats’ home, and the Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals, in the hope that the sums required to authorize the Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to claim Mr Kennett's munificent offer for these two objects may be contributed by the public, and that copy of this resolution, with expression of the committee’s strong sense of obligation and thanks, be sent to Mr Kennett for his kind offer.ĭublin Daily Express, Saturday 16th June 1883: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS-EARNEST AND URGENT APPEAL. For the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. For a house of refuge for lost and starving dogs and cats. of Petersfield, Hants, in which he offered to give £500 for each the following objects, provided similar sums were contributed within a year for the same purposes, viz: 1. Dublin - the Rev T A McKee, D D, in the chair - to consider communications addressed to the bon secretary (Miss Swifte), by Richard Barlow Kennett, Esq. The committee of this society met on Tuesday, the 13th inst, at the office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Westmoreland-street. Walbrook, Secretary, to whom all communications may be addressed, and of whom may be had, free, a form of petition to Parliament for the Prohibition of Vivisection, and a list of publications on the subject.ĭublin Daily Express, Friday 16th February 1883: IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF VIVISECTION. The Committee desire to EXPRESS their very warm THANKS to Mr. Richard Barlow Kennett's noble offer has been realised through the raising of the Special Fund of £1,000 by the appointed time. The Ipswich Journal, Tuesday 30th January 1883: THE COMMITTEE of the LONDON ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY feel assured that all sympathisers in the Anti-Vivisection movement will be greatly encouraged to learn that Mr. The testatrix desires her husband to kill her favourite cat with chloroform immediately after her death. The testatrix leaves all her property upon trust for her husband for life : at his death, she bequeaths £6000 to the Royal Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals £2000 to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association : £1000 to the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs £2000 to the churchwardens of the parish of Petersfield, the interest and dividends be distributed twice a year in money, blankets, coals, etc., among the poor of the said parish. Richard Kennett died during 1890 and his house was auctioned.Įdinburgh Evening News, Friday 20th October 1882: The will of Mrs Mary Ann Kennett, late of Petersfield, Hants, was proved on the inst., the value the personal estate exceeding £18,000. The monetary bequests were provisional on the amount left at the death of her husband, Richard Barlow Kennett, but judging from his own charitable contributions (including free provision of humane cattle-slaughtering equipment to several abattoirs during 1884) the societies probably got the full amounts. Fearing that her own cat might become a stray, she also ordered it to be chloroformed (the most humane method then available) after her death. This was not for food or shelter, but rather for “mercifully” killing the animals, there being little else to offer the sick and starving hordes of stray and abandoned cats in British towns and cities. In September 1882, Mrs Mary Anne Kennett left £6000 in her will to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, among other animal-related causes. THE BENEFACTORS: RICHARD BARLOW KENNETT & MARY ANNE KENNETT This article looks at the early history of British cat rescue, and some of the benefactors of the early organisations. HISTORY OF CAT RESCUE IN BRITAIN - SOME BENEFACTORS ![]()
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