Philip Pusey, born June 25, 1799, and died July 9, 1855, was a reforming British agriculturist and Tory Member of Parliament who represented several constituencies between 1830 and 1852, including Berkshire from 1835 to 1852, his longest tenure. He developed a system using lush water meadows to sustain large flocks of breeding ewes and lambs that matured early, and he was an early adopter of earthenware drainpipes for field drainage. He helped establish the Royal Agricultural Society, chaired the agricultural implement section at the 1851 Great Exhibition, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and contributed numerous articles to the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society.
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Defining ContributionDeveloped a system of using lush water-meadows to support large flocks of ewes and early-maturing lambs 1 In the Other Atlases
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Philip Pusey (25 June 1799-9 July 1855) was a reforming agriculturalist, a
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His most notable contribution to farming was the development of a system of using lush water-meadows to support large flocks of ewes and early-maturing lambs.
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Philip Pusey (25 June 1799-9 July 1855) was a reforming agriculturalist, a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) and a friend and follower of Sir Robert Peel.
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