Bell, Benjamin (1749–1806), surgeon and farmer, eldest son of the fifteen children of George Bell (1722–1813), farmer, and Anne, née Corrie, of Speddoch, was born at Dumfries in April 1749. He was descended from landed proprietors of long standing in Dumfriesshire. Subsequently the family moved to ...
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Bell, Benjamin (1749–1806), surgeon and farmer
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Jesty, Benjamin (bap. 1736, d. 1816), farmer and vaccinator
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Jesty, Benjamin (bap. 1736, d. 1816), farmer and vaccinator, was born in Yetminster, Dorset, and baptized there on 19 August 1736, the youngest of at least four sons of Robert Jesty, butcher. Little else is known of his early life. In March 1770 he married ...
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Partridge, James Richard John (1952–2020), health economist, farmer, and charity founder
Andrew Jarvis
Partridge, James Richard John (1952–2020), health economist, farmer, and charity founder, was born on 30 October 1952 at St Olave’s Maternity Home, Filton, Gloucestershire, the son of Sir Ernest John Partridge (1908–1982), chairman of Imperial Tobacco, and president of the Confederation of British Industries...
