Robert Maxwell (writer) explained

Robert Maxwell (1696-1766) was a Scottish writer on agriculture.

He was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.^[1] 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).

Further reading

• Science and Agricultural Progress: Quantitative Evidence from England, 1660-1780 by Joshua Lerner, Agricultural History, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 11–27

Notes and References

1. Maxwell, Robert (1695–1765), agricultural improver and writer by W. A. S. Hewins, rev. Rosalind Mitchison, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography