Arthur Young FRS was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement.
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Robert Andrews, considered for his farming a model landowner by Young, with his wife, in a double portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1750)
Young's tomb at All Saints' Church, Bradfield Combust
One of Arthur Young's bookplates in a Royal Agricultural Society of England book
Course of experimental agriculture, 1770Awards 1
Writers born in the 1740s 6
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Arthur Young FRS was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement. After the French Revolution of 1789, his views on its politics carried weight as an informed observer, and he became an important opponent of British reformers.
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deceased
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Lived 1741 to 1820 · aged 78
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