Thomas Hale (agriculturist)
Thomas Hale (died c. 1759) was an 18th-century British writer on agriculture, known from his A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1756.
Life and work
Little is known about Thomas Hales life, and no records exist. He died around 1759, because the edition of "Continuation of The Compleat Body of Husbandry" described in the subtitle that it was compiled from the original papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq.[1]
His main work was A Compleat Body of Husbandry, published between 1756 and 1758 in four volumes. The work was translated in French by Jean-Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes, published in 1764 entitled Le Gentilhomme cultivateur, ou corps complet d'agriculture.
The British The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry by members of the Royal Society, first published from 1756 to 1768, considered Thomas Hale among the foremost agriculturists of that time. The 3rd edition of the The Complete Farmer (1777) even listed Hale in the subtitle of this work among other foremost authorities, such as Carl Linnaeus, Louis François Henri de Menon, Hugh Plat, John Evelyn, John Mortimer, John Worlidge, Jethro Tull, William Ellis, Philip Miller, Edward Lisle, Roque, John Mills, and Arthur Young.[2]
It is known that George Washington owned a copy of Thomas Hale's Compleat Body of Husbandry, London, 1758.[3]
Selected publications
- Thomas Hale. A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1756/1758; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Volume IV
- John Hill, Thomas Hale, Sir William Beauchamp Proctor. Eden: Or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the Several Useful Products of a Garden, .... Compiled and Digested from the Papers of the Late Celebrated Mr. Hale, by the Authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry. .... T. Osborne; T. Trye; S. Crowder and Company; and H. Woodgate,
- Thomas Hale. A compleat body of husbandryers societies in Ireland, Dublin : Printed for Peter Wilson and John Exshaw, 1757
- Thomas Hale. A compleat body of husbandry original drawings. London : Printed for Tho. Osborne, Tho. Trye, and S. Crowder and Co., 1758
- Thomas Hale. A continuation of the compleat body of husbandry containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer, and country gentleman, in cultivating, planting, and stocking of land ..., 1759
- Thomas Hale, Jean-Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes Le Gentilhomme cultivateur, ou corps complet d'agriculture 1764
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- ↑ Esq. Thomas Hale. Continuation of The Compleat Body of Husbandry: ... Compiled from the Original Papers of the Late Thomas Hale, Esq; and Enlarged by Many New and Useful Communications ... T. Osborne, T. Trye and S. Crowder, 1759.
- ↑ The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry. 3rd ed. 1777.
- ↑ Washington and the New Agricultur at memory.loc.gov, Accessed April 4, 2014