The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) was established in the United Kingdom in 1931 as a more comprehensive body than the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Research to the Development Commissioners which preceded it and whose functions it took over. It was established as a committee of the Privy Council for the "for the organisation and development of agricultural research." This was then transformed into the ARC by Royal Charter with thirteen original members: Dr. Joseph Arthur Arkwright, F.K.S., M.A., F.R.C.P. Sir Merrik Burrell, Bt., C.B.E. Dr. Edwin John Butler, C.I.E., F.R.S. Professor Edward Provan Cathcart, C.B.E., M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. Right Hon. Lord Richard Cavendish, C.B., C.M.G. Mr. Joseph F. Duncan, trade unionist Sir John Bretland Farmer, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, M.A., M.B., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Professor Thomas J. Mackie Sir Thomas Middleton, K.C.I.E., K.B.E., C.B. Mr. James William Spencer Mount Professor D. M. S. Watson, F.R.S.
In 1983 it was superseded by the Agricultural and Food Research Council.
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