John Paget (1808 to 1892), known in Hungarian as Paget János, was an English agriculturist and author who worked in the Transylvanian territory of present-day Romania. Born in Loughborough, he was educated at the Unitarian Manchester College at York, read medicine and travelled extensively in Europe. In 1836 he married the Hungarian Baroness Polyxena Wesselényi Bánffy; the couple returned in 1839 to buy a house in Cluj-Napoca and an estate at Ghiriș-Arieș, today Câmpia Turzii, where they developed the farming with an improved breed of cow and campaigned for improvements to agriculture. He joined the Hungarian war of independence in 1848 and is known for his 1839 book Hungary and Transylvania. In 1878, after the Paris World Exhibition, he received the cross of the Legion of Honour, and he died at Ghiriș-Arieș.
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developing the farming there with an "improved" breed of cow
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