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The ''General View'' series of county surveys was an initiative of the
Board of Agriculture The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was a United Kingdom government department created by the Board of Agriculture Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c.30) and at that time called the Board of Agriculture, and then from 1903 the Board ...
of Great Britain, of the early 1790s. Many of these works had second editions, in the 1810s. The Board, set up by
Sir John Sinclair Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and was one of the first people to use the word ''statistics'' in the English language, in h ...
, was generally a proponent of
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William Marshall, who had written the Central Highlands survey, was a rival of Arthur Young, and at odds with him over the surveys. He wrote at length about the reports in 1808 to 1817, producing a five-volume ''Review'', generally critical of the reports. William Lester's ''History of British Implements and Machinery applicable to Agriculture'' (1811) drew heavily on extracts from the surveys, where those covered
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s. His introduction commented on the difficulty in referring farmers directly to the reports. Sir John Sinclair wrote a number of related works: *''General View of the Agriculture of the Northern Counties and Islands of Scotland'' (1795) *''Account of the Origin of the Board of Agriculture and its Progress for Three Years after its Establishment'' (1796) *''General Report of the Agricultural State and Political State of Scotland'' (1814) *''Hints Regarding the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, Compared with that of Great Britain'' (1815)


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*http://www.bahs.org.uk/LIBRALall.html


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{{Authority control History of agriculture in the United Kingdom Series of books 1790s books 1800s books 1810s books