See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• BAKEWELL
• ROBERT BAKEWELL (1725-1795)
• BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1768–1843)

BAKEWELL (1725-1795)  See also:

• ENGLISH

English agriculturist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Dishley', See also:

• LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire, in 1725 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer at the same See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, died in 176o, and See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BAKEWELL
• BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1725-1795)
• BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1768–1843)

Bakewell then took over the management of the See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate . By visiting a large number of farms all over the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, he had already acquired a wide theoretical knowledge of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture and stock-breeding; and this knowledge he now put to See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical use at Dishley . His See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• OBJECT

object was to improve the breed of See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep and oxen, and in this he was highly successful, his new Leicestershire breed of sheep attaining within little more than See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century an See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

international reputation, while the Dishley See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle (also known as the new Leicestershire See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long-See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn) became almost as famous . He extended his breeding experiments to horses, producing a new and particularly useful type of See also:

• FARM

farm-See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse . He was the first to establish the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• RAM
• RAM, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE (18o4-1865)

ram-letting on a large See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, and founded the Dishley Society, the object of which was to ensure purity of breed . The value of his own stock was quickly recognized, and in one See also:

• YEAR

year he made 1200 guineas from the letting of a single ram . Bakewell's agricultural experiments were not confined to stock-breeding . His reputation stood high in every detail of farm-management, and as an improver of grass See also:

• LAND

land by systematic See also:

• IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation he had no See also:

• RIVAL

rival . He died on the 1st of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1795 .