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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 ...
Townshend was the eldest son of Sir Horatio Townshend, 3rd Baronet, who was created Baron Townshend in 1661 and Viscount Townshend in 1682. The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend (d. 1493) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.
It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967. He was 21; a college dropout with a wife and a baby, in an era of dismal prospects ...
B. Robert Bakewell (geologist) John Ball (geologist) William Barlow (geologist) Lucas Barrett; Hilary Bauerman; Henry De la Beche; Thomas Belt; Henry Howe Bemrose (geologist)