Edmund Rack (c.1735 – 22 February 1787), born in Norfolk, England, became well known in Bath, Somerset; he was a writer, particularly about agriculture, and founded notable societies.
At the end of his term he moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, where he became shopman to a Miss Agnes Smith, whom he subsequently married.
[1] About 1775 he settled in Bath, Somerset, and, having cultivated a taste for literature, was patronised by Lady Miller of Batheaston, Mrs Macaulay, and Dr Wilson.
Ill-health had long troubled him, and although he gave, in 1777, the notorious James Graham a certificate that he had been cured from "a bad cough and asthmatic complaint," his state soon became worse.
[1] Rack was the author of:[1] Three octavo volumes of papers contributed to the Agricultural Society were published under his editorship, and he wrote a few of the articles.
He wrote the second of the printed odes presented to Mrs. Macaulay on her birthday in 1777, and in the fourth volume of Poetical Amusements, at Lady Miller's villa, there appeared three poems from his pen.