Catalogue description Archive of the Southdown Sheep Society

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of AMS5642
Reference: AMS5642
Title: Archive of the Southdown Sheep Society
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited by the Society 25 Sep 1978 (A2301), 14 Sep 1987 (A4913), 18 Sep 1987 (A4914), 29 Oct 1987 (A4933), 13 Jun 1988 (A5067), 2 Nov 1988 (A5154), 30 Aug 1991 A5735), 28 May 1992 (A5876), 16 and 22 Jun 1998 (ACC 7700), 16 May 2000 (ACC 8132)
Administrative / biographical background:

Founded in 1891 as the Southdown Sheep-breeders Association, the society adopted its present name on amalgamation with the Southdown Sheep Club in 1897. At the first meeting it was stated that the association had been formed as a result of the dissatisfaction of several breeders with the breed and a desire to start a stockbook for the registration of pure-bred sheep. The three principal reasons given were, to secure greater purity in the breed, to maintain such purity and to enable the export of the sheep to America

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