Robert Maxwell

1695 - 1765  (70 years)

• Name	Robert Maxwell
  Birth	1695	Kirkpatrick-Durham, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
  	Arkland
  Gender	Male
  Title Suffix	of Arkland
  Occupation	1743	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Secretary to the Honourable Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland
  Occupation	1747
  	Author of 'The practical bee-master, or, a treatise, wherein the management of bees, both in common hives, and in the colony way, without killing them for their honey'
  	https://catalog.folger.edu/record/826062. Also author of 'The practical husbandman: Being a collection of miscellaneous papers on husbandry, &c.'
  Death	1765
  Person ID	I46892	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family	Margaret Montgomerie,   b. 1697, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F31948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

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  Birth - 1695 - Kirkpatrick-Durham, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Occupation - Secretary to the Honourable Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland - 1743 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  For more on Robert Maxwell, see G. W. Shirley, ‘Two Pioneer Galloway Agriculturalists: Robert Maxwell of Arkland and William Craik of Arbigland’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History Society, Series III, 13 (1925), pp. 129-161