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.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Wilson & Fiske 1900, "Parkinson, Richard (1748-1815)".
  2. ^ Hewins 1895, p. 315.

References

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. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 315.