George Silver was a Scottish agricultural innovator, in

Kincardineshire Kincardineshire, also known as the Mearns (from the Scottish Gaelic meaning "the Stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of northeast Scotland. It is bounded by Aberdeenshire on the north and w ...

, who flourished in the early nineteenth century. Silver was born in Netherley. He was the son of

Alexander Silver Alexander Silver was a wealthy East India Company trader, who lived in Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the late 18th century; he and his son George Silver were noted agricultural innovators of their era. Alexander Silver built the Netherl ...

, who made his fortune with the East India Trading Company. Alexander Silver built the

Netherley House Netherley House is a mansion built by Alexander Silver in the late 18th century in Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated near the northerly flowing drainage of Crynoch Burn (Groome, 1885). The home was sold to Horatio Ross by Jame ...

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in Netherley and died there in 1797. George Silver esq. innovated in land cultivation, grain production and

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breeding.C. Michael Hogan, ''History of Muchalls Castle'', Lumina Tech Press, (2005) By 1841 he had purchased the lands of nearby

Muchalls Castle Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lower course is a well-preserved Romanesque, double-groined 13th-century tower house structure, built by the Frasers of ...

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