Thomas Hale (agriculturist)

Thomas Hale (died c. 1759) was an 18th-century British agriculturist, known from his book A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1756.

[1][2] His main work was A Compleat Body of Husbandry, published between 1756 and 1758 in four volumes.

The work was translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes and published in 1763 as Le gentilhomme cultivateur, ou corps complet d'agriculture.

[3] The British The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry by members of the Royal Society, first published from 1756 to 1768, considered Thomas Hale among the foremost agriculturists of the time.

[4] George Washington owned a copy of A Compleat Body of Husbandry.