Sketch: UK Agricultural Research and Education January 7, 2011
Posted by Will Thomas in Technocracy in the UK.Tags: Alfred Charles True, Alfred Daniel Hall, Charles Townshend, Edward John Russell, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, George Henry Falkiner Nuttall, John Bennet Lawes, John Sibthorp, Jonathan Harwood, Joseph Barcroft, Joseph Henry Gilbert, Justus Liebig, Margaret Rossiter, Marsha Richmond, Redcliffe Salaman, Reginald Punnett, Robert Kohler, Rowland Biffen, Thomas Barlow Wood, Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, William Bateson
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Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817-1901)
It is difficult to trace the lineage of agricultural research in Britain without the bottom falling out from underneath your feet, putting you in freefall until you land with a thud in the eighteenth century. Since this is well outside the scope of my project, I will just note a few reference points before scrambling back toward the twentieth century: the growth of experimental farming by “improvement”-minded landowners (good ol’ Turnip Townshend and co.), the 1791 foundation of the Veterinary College of London (later the Royal Veterinary College), and the 1796 foundation of the Sibthorpian Chair of Rural Economy at Oxford through the benefaction of John Sibthorp (1758-1796), who was Sherrardian Professor of Botany there from 1784 until his death (having replaced his father, Humphrey, who held the post from 1747 to 1783).
A Board of Agriculture existed in England from 1793 until it was wound up in 1820. The Royal Agricultural Society of England was founded in 1838, and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was founded in 1844. For reference, the Board of Longitude was wound up in 1828, the Royal Astronomical Society was founded in 1820, the British Medical Association was founded in 1832, and the Chemical Society of London was founded in 1841.
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