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BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1725-1795)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 229 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ROBERT
ROBERT (1275—1343)
ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)
ROBERT (1725-1795) See also:

ENGLISH

English agriculturist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Dishley', See also:

LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire, in 1725. His See also:

FATHER

father, a See also:

FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer at the same See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, died in 176o, and Robert Bakewell then took over the management of the See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate. By visiting a large number of farms all over the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, he had already acquired a wide theoretical knowledge of See also:

agriculture and stock-breeding; and this knowledge he now put to See also:

PRACTICAL

practical use at Dishley. His See also:

main See also:

OBJECT

object was to improve the breed of See also:

sheep and oxen, and in this he was highly successful, his new Leicestershire breed of sheep attaining within little more than See also:

HALF

half a See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century an See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

international reputation, while the Dishley See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle (also known as the new Leicestershire See also:

long-See also:

horn) became almost as famous. He extended his breeding experiments to horses, producing a new and particularly useful type of See also:

FARM

farm-See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse. He was the first to establish the See also:

trade in See also:

ram-letting on a large See also:

scale, and founded the Dishley Society, the object of which was to ensure purity of breed. The value of his own stock was quickly recognized, and in one See also:

YEAR

year he made 1200 guineas from the letting of a single ram. Bakewell's agricultural experiments were not confined to stock-breeding. His reputation stood high in every detail of farm-management, and as an improver of grass See also:

LAND

land by systematic See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation he had no See also:

RIVAL

rival. He died on the 1st of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1795.

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