Name Richard Parkinson Role Agriculturist | Died 1815 | |
Books A Tour in America in Seventeen Ninety-Eight, Seventeen Ninety-Nine, and 1800... | ||
Richard Parkinson (born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1748; died in England, 23 February 1815) was an English agriculturist.
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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.
On his return to England, Parkinson became steward to Sir Joseph Banks in Lincolnshire. He died at Osgodby on 23 February 1815.
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