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Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. In addition to work in agronomy , Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock .
Robert Bakewell (10 March 1767 – 15 August 1843) was an English geologist. Life. Bakewell was born in Nottingham in 1767. [1] He was an able observer, and deserving ...
Robert Bakewell may refer to: Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist) (1725–1795), pioneering English farmer Robert Bakewell (ironsmith) (1682–1752), English wrought ironsmith
Robert Bakewell (1682–1752) was an English smith. He took an apprenticeship in London as an iron worker and became an extremely skilled ironsmith. Life.
Leicester Longwool sheep date back to the 1700s, and were found in the Midland counties of England, originally developed in Dishley Grange, Leicestershire, [3] by Robert Bakewell. Bakewell was the foremost exponent of modern animal-breeding techniques in the selection of livestock. The Leicester Longwool in the 1700s was slow-growing and ...
In the eighteenth century Robert Bakewell applied his methods of selective breeding to these cattle, which for a short time became the predominant British breed. [5]: 232 [6]: 32 Both the numbers and the quality of the breed declined throughout the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth.
The Lincoln Longwool breed was improved by Robert Bakewell in the 18th century. Selective breeding for desired traits was established as a scientific practice by Robert Bakewell during the British Agricultural Revolution in the 18th century. One of his most important breeding programs was with sheep.
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