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Pages in category "Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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The Royal Agricultural University was founded as the Royal Agricultural College in 1842, [6] at a meeting of the Fairford and Cirencester Farmers’ Club. Concerned by the lack of government support for education, Robert Jeffreys-Brown addressed the meeting on "The Advantages of a Specific Education for Agricultural Pursuits". [7]
In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was John Haldane. [2] He resigned his post at Cirencester in 1850, being replaced by the Rev. John Sayer Haygarth. In 1854 Wilson replaced Prof David Low as Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy at Edinburgh University.
After work as a herdsman in Somerset he attended the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (now the Royal Agricultural University). He worked for Earl Bathurst, then managed Salperton Park Estate near Cheltenham, before taking over the tenancy of Bemborough Farm from Corpus Christi College, Oxford with a former schoolfriend, John Neave. [2]
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She was elected to the Entomological Society of London in 1878. In 1881, Ormerod published a special report on the turnip-fly, and in 1882 was appointed consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, [4] a post she held until 1892. For several years she was lecturer on scientific entomology at the Royal Agricultural College ...
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