Robert Maxwell (1696–1766) was a Scottish writer on agriculture.
He was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.Maxwell, Robert (1695–1765), agricultural improver and writer by W. A. S. Hewins, rev. Rosalind Mitchison, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 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
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