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.

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Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., 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 (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 315.

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