Arthur Young

Arthur Young 1741-1820, English agriculturist. His writings hastened the progress of scientific farming. He traveled widely, always observing techniques of farming. In 1784, Young founded the periodical Annals of Agriculture and edited it through 1808. Among his other works are three accounts of tours in England (1768-71) and Travels during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, and 1790 (1792-94).

Bibliography: See his autobiography (1898); biography by J. G. Gazley (1973).

Young, Arthur (1741–1820). Farmer, journalist, and agricultural writer. Often regarded as a pioneer of the agricultural revolution, Young began his working life as a small farmer at Bradfield, his family home in Suffolk. After two years in Ireland (1776–8) he returned to Bradfield, where he farmed and settled to work as a writer and journalist, founding in 1784 the Annals of Agriculture, which he edited until 1809. In 1793 he became secretary to the Board of Agriculture with a salary of £400.

Young, Arthur (1741–1820), became well known as an agricultural theorist; he wrote a large number of works on agricultural subjects and edited the periodical The Annals of Agriculture (1784–1809). His power of political and social observation is shown by his Political Arithmetic (1774) and his Tour in Ireland (1780), but his fame rests chiefly on Travels in France (1792). Young was connected with the Burneys, and his country house, Bradfield Hall, Suffolk, is described in Fanny Burney's Camilla.