info re Ladies Humane Education Society - 1874 in Great Britain?

Question

Possibly existed in the area around Wilmslow Chesire where there is an extremely long (Horse Trough ?) now used as a flower bed, which is engraved with the above details

Answer 1

1. Humane education refers to teaching animal welfare. Humane (related to animal welfare) is terminology which is used more in USA, where there exist the National Humane Education Society and the Humane Society of the United States.
http://www.nhes.org/
http://www.hsus.org/

2. However, I think I have found the successor to the Ladies Humane Education Society.
a) Humane Education Society (Council For Protection Of Animals) - registered charity no. 207513. According to the information on the Charity Commission website, it was founded in 1927. The address for the organisation's contact is in Altrincham, Cheshire.
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/showcharity.asp?remchar=&chyno=207513
b) As further indication that this is, indeed, a successor organisation, the listing in the following website shows that the Humane Education Society has an animal convalescent home in Wilmslow.
http://www.veggies.org.uk/acd/europe/uk/rescue/countyc.htm

3. If you wished to get confirmation and/or more details of the earlier "ladies" organisation, then you might wish to contact the organisation yourself. I suspect that the charity has recently undergone a radical downsizing, as a result of some problems. According to the information on the Charity Commission webpage, in 1999 the charity spent £89k and in 2000 £105k (with income of £124k and £165k, respectively). In comparison, the accounts for 2005 show radically reduced expenditure of £2k and income of £50k (with the accounts for the intervening years having been submitted extremely late or not at all).