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Turnip Townshend
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(Charles Townshend, 1674–1738, 2nd viscount 1687) Whig statesman, responsible for British foreign policy during the 1720s, whose fame now is largely as an agriculturalist. Alexander *Pope wrote that this great man liked nothing better than to talk about turnips, and tradition credits him with introducing the four-course rotation of this root crop on his Norfolk estate. It seems, however, that it was common practice there and that it was merely his enthusiasm which gave it prominence, causing the turnip to become an important feed for cattle in other parts of the country.
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