Robert, a distinguished agriculturist and improver of live stock, was born at Dishley, in Leicestershire, in 1725 or 1726, and died there in October 1795. His attention was more particularly devoted to the improvement of the race of sheep known as the Dishley or New Leicestershire breed; in which he was so successful that some of his rams were let for the season at the extraordinary sum of four hundred guineas. The improvements he introduced in the breeding of live stock generally were such as to secure him a high rank among the benefactors of British husbandry.

a market-town in Derbyshire, on the River Wye, 152 miles from London. The church is a fine old structure, in the form of a cross. The inhabitants are supported by the working of the coal, lead, and zinc mines, and the stone and marble quarries in the neighbourhood. There is also a large cotton manufactory in the town. Bakewell is remarkable for its excellent trout-fishing, and for a chalybeate spring frequented by invalids. It has a free school of very ancient date, a dispensary, and a literary and scientific institution, &c. Pop. in 1851, 2217.