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Joseph Elkington
Joseph Elkington (baptised 1 January 1740〔H. S. Torrens, ‘Elkington, Joseph (bap. 1740, d. 1806)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 (accessed 16 Feb 2013 )〕 at Stretton-on-Dunsmore, died October 1806) was an English agriculturalist, lauded by parliament for his reforms to land drainage.
== Career ==
While farming at Princethorpe, Warwickshire he devised a way of using boreholes to drain boggy land.〔 For this innovation, and concerned that his frail health would result in the loss of his knowledge before it was shared,〔 parliament awarded him, in 1795, £1,000 and a gold ring,〔 Edinburgh land surveyor James Johnstone (d. 1838) was employed by the Board of Agriculture to study Elkington's methods.〔
Elkington subsequently worked in partnership with Lancelot "Capability" Brown to develop drainage plans for the latter's landscaping schemes, starting with one at Fisherwick Park near Lichfield.〔
Elkington moved to Hey House in Staffordshire in 1797 to farm of land at Madeley,〔 which became known as Bog Farm.〔
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