Robert Bakewell
1725–95
Stockbreeder and farmer. Farmed at Dishley, Leicestershire. Improved breeds of sheep and cattle. Produced the new Leicestershire breed of sheep, the Leicestershire longhorn, and a breed of black horses. Improved grassland by watering.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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