Richard Parkinson (agriculturist)
Richard Parkinson (born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1748; died in England, 23 February 1815) was an English agriculturist.
Biography
He became a farmer, was interested in improved methods, and was encouraged by Sir John Sinclair, president of the Board of Agriculture, who recommended him to George Washington. He left England 3 September 1798, and was for some time in the employ of Washington as an agriculturist at Mount Vernon, and resided at Orange Hill, near Baltimore.[1]
On his return to England, Parkinson became steward to Sir Joseph Banks in Lincolnshire. He died at Osgodby on 23 February 1815.[2]
Works
He published:[1]
- The Experienced Farmer (2 vols., London, 1798; enlarged ed., with an autobiography, 1807)
- A Tour in America, 1798-1800, containing reminiscences of Washington (2 vols., 1805)
- The English Practice of Farming (1806)
- Gypsum as a Manure (1808)
- Breeding and Management of Live-Stock, a standard work (2 vols., 1809)
- Rutlandshire (1809) and Huntingdonshire (1811) in the General View of Agriculture county surveys.
Notes
- 1 2 Wilson & Fiske 1900, "Parkinson, Richard (1748-1815)".
- ↑ Hewins 1895, p. 315.
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Parkinson, Richard". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hewins, William Albert Samuel (1895). "Parkinson, Richard (1748-1815)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 315.
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