Arthur Young (agriculturist)
Arthur Young FRS was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement. After the French Revolution of 1789, his views on its politics carried weight as an informed observer, and he became an important opponent of British reformers. Young is considered a major English writer on agriculture, although he is best known as a social and political observer. Also read widely were his Tour in Ireland (1780) and Travels in France (1792).
Arthur Young, by John Russell, 1794
Robert Andrews, considered for his farming a model landowner by Young, with his wife, in a double portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1750)
Young's tomb at All Saints' Church, Bradfield Combust
One of Arthur Young's bookplates in a Royal Agricultural Society of England book
Bradfield Combust is a village and former manor and civil parish, now in the parish of Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield, the West Suffolk district, in Suffolk, England, located on the A134 between Windsor Green and Great Whelnetham. In 1961 the parish had a population of 108. In 1988 the parish was merged with Stanningfield to form "Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield".
All Saints Church
Village sign, bearing the name of Arthur Young (1741–1820)
Bradfield Hall
Bradfield Combust Methodist Church
