Inventor jethro tull biography

Jethro Tull (1674-1741)
Born: 1674 at Basildon, Berkshire
Agriculturalist
Died: 21st February 1741 at Hungerford, Berkshire

Jethro Tull was a major pioneer in the modernization of agriculture.

He was a son of Jethro Tull Senior, a gentleman farmer from Bradfield in Berkshire, and his wife, Dorothy, the daughter of Thomas Buckeridge of Wood Green Farm in nearby Upper Basildon. He was born in Basildon, presumably at his grandfather's farm, and was baptised in the parish church there on 30th March 1674, although he grew up in Bradfield and, later, in southern Hungerford.

At the age of seventeen, Tull matriculated at Oxford, to St.

John's College (the Buckeridges were cousins of its founder), on 7th July 1691, but appears to have taken no degree. He was admitted as a student of Gray's Inn on 11th December 1693; and called to the Bar on 19th May, 1699.

In his admission entry, he is stated to be of two years' standing at Staple Inn, and to be the only son and heir app