Robert Salmon (inventor)
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Robert Salmon (1763 – 6 October 1821), was an architect and inventor of agricultural implements. He was employed on the Duke of Bedford's estate in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Salmon was born in 1763 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the youngest son of William Salmon, a carpenter and builder. At an early age he entered the service of an attorney named Grey, residing near Leicester Fields, who aided him in his education. He soon displayed remarkable mechanical ability, and, being fond of music, made for himself a violin and other musical instruments.[1]
A few years later, he obtained the appointment of clerk of works under the architect Henry Holland, and was engaged in the rebuilding of Carlton House, London. In 1790 he was employed under Holland at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, where he attracted the notice of Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, and became the Duke's resident architect and mechanic in 1794.[1]
