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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 may refer to: Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist) (1725–1795), pioneering English farmer Robert Bakewell (ironsmith) (1682–1752), English wrought ironsmith
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Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee; July 29, 1933) is a retired American actor. Fuller was known for his deep “charcoal” voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, and as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the medical/action drama Emergency!
In the gardens at the hall, a wrought iron arbour created by Bakewell can still be seen today: it is known locally as 'the Birdcage'. Following an affair with local woman Elizabeth Fisher, which resulted in the birth of a son, Bakewell Fisher, he moved from Melbourne to Derby, where he set up a workshop and forge at Oake's Yard in St Peter's ...
Bakewell was born in Nottingham in 1767. [1] He was an able observer, and deserving of mention as one of the earliest teachers of general and practical geology. From 1811 onwards, he lectured on geology all over the country, exhibiting sections of rock formation and a geological map, the first of its kind.
— John James Audubon, American ornithologist, naturalist and painter (27 January 1851), speaking to his friend William Bakewell while suffering from senility "Neither life nor death, nor any being can separate us from Him." [4] — Paul-Thérèse-David d'Astros, French Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop (29 September 1851) "Give me! Give me!