About Robert Maxwell
Lived 1696 – 1766 (aged 69–70). Robert Maxwell was a British writer.
Robert Maxwell (1696-1766) was a Scottish writer on agriculture.
He was born in Kirkcudbrightshire. He was an active member of the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland.
He published books including The Practical Husbandman, being a Collection of Miscellaneous Papers on Husbandry (1757) and The Practical Beemaster (1747).
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Scottish writer
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Robert Maxwell was born in 1696.
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Robert Maxwell died in 1766.
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Robert Maxwell was a writer.
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Robert Maxwell was British.
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