Reynolds, John 1703-1997
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John Reynolds of Dane Court, Adisham, Kent (1703 - 1779) was an early agricultural pioneer. The son of Thomas Reynolds, a Kent Yeoman, John Reynolds enlarged the family farm and developed agricultural methods which came to the attention of the Royal Society of Arts, which presented him with a silver cup for his efforts to modernise agricultural methods. These included the use of the turnip-rooted cabbage as a winter feed stuff for livestock, a method of growing melons using manure hot-beds and various other innovations mentioned in Dossie's "Memoires of Agriculture" and Arthur Young's "Agricultural Calender". A tribute to Reynolds in Adisham church was erected after his death, and historian Maurice Crane MA, who lived in his house two centuries after Reynolds, drew modern attention to his improvement efforts.
