Royal Agricultural College Cirencester
Edwin Budding's patent collaborator, the Earl of Ducie, was Vice President at The Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.
The original building is hardly changed today; the campus is on both sides of the modern main road from Stroud to Cirencester.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CIRENCESTER.
PATRON -His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT.
PRESIDENT. The Right Hon. EARL BATHURST.
VICE-PRESIDENT. The Right Hon. EARL DUCIE.
DateSourceGoogle Books/The Farmers Almanac/1849/P102Link