Jethro Tull
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Technology, Inventions, Agriculture
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Inventors, Farms, Farming, Rural Life
- Curriculum: British History, 18th Century European History
Article abstract: Tull’s publications describing his farming experiments and inventions spread knowledge of new agricultural techniques, thereby contributing to the network of changes which constituted the Agricultural Revolution.
Early Life
Jethro Tull seems to have planned for a political career. The son of Jethro and Dorothy Tull, he was part of a gentry family which extended over the Berkshire-Oxfordshire borderlands. He matriculated at St. John’s College, Oxford, in July, 1691; two years later he entered Gray’s Inn and was called to the bar in...
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