Robert Hunter (National Trust) to propagate the formation of a "National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty". In July 1894 the trust was formally inaugurated under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster. At the inaugural meeting Rawnsley declared, to cheering, that the aim was to establish "a great National Gallery of natural pictures". Hunter was appointed chairman of the executive committee. In the same year he was knighted for his services to conservation. Hunter had warned the inaugural meeting that the trust would be on a truly secure footing only if it obtained the permanent status granted by either a
Eynesbury Hardwicke parish council. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,124. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and the area divided between Abbotsley and St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke Eynesbury Hardwicke was a civil parish in the Huntingdonshire part of Cambridgeshire, England. Eynesbury Hardwicke was historically part of Eynesbury parish. That parish was split in two in 1895; the village of Eynesbury was incorporated into the town of St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed from the remaining 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of countryside. Caldecote Manor, Eynesbury Hardwicke House and the site of