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ROBERT COLLING (1749-1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:COLLING (1749-1820)  , and See also:CHARLES (1751-1836), See also:English stock breeders, famous for their improvement of the Shorthorn breed of See also:cattle, were the sons of Charles See also:Colling, a See also:farmer of Ketton near See also:Darlington . Their lives are closely connected with the See also:history of the Shorthorn breed . Of the two See also:brothers, Charles is probably the better known, and it was his visit to the See also:farm of See also:Robert See also:Bakewell at Dishley that first led the brothers to realize the possibilities of scientific cattle breeding . Charles succeeded to his See also:father's farm at Ketton . Robert, after being first apprenticed to a See also:grocer in See also:Shields, took a farm at Barmpton . An See also:animal which he bought at Charles's See also:advice for £8 and afterwards sold to his See also:brother, became known as the celebrated " Hubback," a See also:bull which formed the basis of both the Ketton and Barmpton herds . The two brothers pursued the same See also:system of " in and in " breeding which they had learned from Bakewell, and both the Ketton and the Barmpton herds were sold by See also:auction in the autumn of ,810 . The former with 47 lots brought £7116, and the latter with 6, lots £7852 . Robert Coiling died unmarried at Barmpton on the 7th of See also:March 182o, leaving his See also:property to his brother . Charles Colling, who is remembered as the owner of the famous bulls " Hubback," "Favourite" and "See also:Comet," was more of a specialist and a business See also:man than his brother . He died on the 16th of See also:January 1836 . See the See also:Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1899, for a See also:biographical See also:sketch of the brothers Colling, by C .

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