George Rennie (1749–1828) was a Scottish agriculturist.
6-442: George Rennie may refer to: George Rennie (agriculturalist) (1749–1828), British agriculturalist George Rennie (engineer) (1791–1866), British civil engineer George Rennie (sculptor) (1802–1860), British sculptor and Member of Parliament George Rennie (lacrosse) (1883–1966), Canadian lacrosse player George Rennie (Canadian politician) (1866–1930), Conservative member of
12-425: A survey of a new system of farming which had been adopted by Lord Kames , Hume of Ninewells , and other landed gentry of the district. In 1765 he became superintendent of a brewery which his father had erected. The elder Rennie died in 1766, and, after leasing the business for some years, the son conducted it on a large scale from 1783 to 1797, when he finally relinquished it to a tenant. Rennie then devoted himself to
18-413: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages George Rennie (agriculturalist) He was the son of James Rennie, farmer, of Phantassie , Haddingtonshire (now East Lothian ), and elder brother of John Rennie , the engineer, born on his father's farm in 1749. On leaving school he was sent by his father, at the age of sixteen, to Tweedside to make
24-637: The Canadian House of Commons PS George Rennie , a wreck off the coast of Magnetic Island Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title George Rennie . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Rennie&oldid=1165708677 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
30-839: The Landed Interest of Great Britain and Ireland, on the subject of the Thrashing Machine . Rennie died on 6 October 1828. He is buried in Prestonkirk churchyard in East Lothian . He was one of the authors of A General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire.... By Messrs. Rennie, Brown, and Shirreff , London, 1794, written for the Board of Agriculture 's General View of Agriculture county surveys . Other writing, co-authored by
36-536: The pursuit of agriculture on the Phantassie farmland and in 1787 he employed Andrew Meikle , the eminent millwright (to whom his brother, John Rennie, the engineer, had been apprenticed) to erect one of his drum thrashing-machines. This was driven by water. When Meikle's claims as the inventor were disputed, Rennie wrote a letter in his favour, which was printed in A Reply to an Address to the Public, but more particularly to
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