The Land Agent: 1700-1920

Lowri Ann Rees; Ciarán Reilly; Annie Tindley

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Land Agent

1700-1920

Lowri Ann Rees , Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley

In the series Scotland's Land

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474438889

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About this book

Explores the role of land agents in Britain and its imperial territories between c. 1700-1920

This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, The Land Agent explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.

Contributors

David Gent, University of York
Ewen A. Cameron, University of Edinburgh
John MacGregor, Independent Scholar
Fidelma Byrne, Maynooth University
Rachel Murphy, University College Cork
Finlay McKichan, Independent Scholar
Lowri Ann Rees, Bangor University
Anne Casement, Independent Scholar
Ciarán Reilly, Independent Scholar
Shaun Evans, Bangor University
Robin K. Campbell, Independent Scholar
Kirsty Gunn, University of Dundee
Annie Tindley, Newcastle University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Map of the British and Irish Isles Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Power and its Constructions on Landed Estates
1 ‘Stirring and advancing times’: Landlords, Agents and Improvement on the Castle Howard Estate, 1826–66 David Gent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 ‘Not a popular personage’: The Factor in Scottish Property Relations, c. 1870–1920 Ewen A. Cameron Ewen A. Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 The Factor and Railway Promotion in the Scottish Highlands: The West Highland Railway John McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
PART II The Transnational Land Agent: Managing Land in the Four Nations and Beyond
4 Divisions of Labour: Inter-managerial Conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Agents Fidelma Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850–1900 Rachel Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6 Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean Plantation Manager, 1792–1822 Finlay McKichan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
PART III Challenges and Catastrophe: The Land Agent under Fire
7 The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849–50: Crisis and Confrontation on the Londonderry Estates in County Down Anne Casement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8 Frustrations and Fears: The Impact of the Rebecca Riots on the Land Agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843 Lowri Ann Rees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9 The Evolution of the Irish Land Agent: The Management of the Blundell Estate in the Eighteenth Century Ciarán Reilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
10 ‘Between two interests’: Pennant A. Lloyd’s Agency of the Penrhyn Estate, 1860–77 Shaun Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
PART IV Social Memory and the Land Agent
11 John Campbell (‘Am Baillidh Mor’), Chamberlain to the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll: Tradition and Social Memory Robin K. Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12 ‘Castle government’: The Psychologies of Land Management in Northern Scotland, c. 1830–90 Annie Tindley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Postscript
13 The Land Agent in Fiction Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
14 Poor Beasts Kirsty Gunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474438889