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Born 1725 • England
Died October 1, 1795 (aged 70) • England

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Robert Bakewell.
Leicester ram
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Charles Colling
British stock raiser
Robert Colling
British stock raiser
John Macarthur.
John Macarthur
Australian agriculturalist
Arthur Young
English writer
Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
British agriculturalist
Samuel Hartlib
English educator
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
Jethro Tull
British agronomist and inventor
Collings
Jesse Collings
British politician
Sir George Stapledon
English agriculturalist
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Muḥammad I Askia
Songhai ruler
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
“Father of the green revolution” in India
M.S. Swaminathan
Indian scientist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Matthew, Patrick
Patrick Matthew
Scottish landowner and agriculturalist
Ben Tillman
Ben Tillman
American politician