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A distinguished English writer on agriculture and social economy; born 1741; died 1820. He made a practical study of agricultural economy, and wrote: "A Course of Experimental Agriculture" (1770); accounts of tours of observation through different quarters of England, among these, "A Farmer's Letters to the People of England" (1768), "A Farmer's Tour through the East of England" (1770); "Travels in France" (2 vols., 1792), a celebrated book which reveals the true state of the peasant population of France on the eve of the Revolution.