Richard Parkinson (agriculturist)
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Richard Parkinson (born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1748; died in England, 23 February 1815) was an English agriculturist.
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.
