Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Notes on the Contributors

pp ix-xi

Map of the British and Irish Isles

pp xii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Power and its Constructions on Landed Estates

pp 17-18

1 - ‘Stirring and advancing times’: Landlords, Agents and Improvement on the Castle Howard Estate, 1826–66

pp 19-38

2 - ‘Not a popular personage’: The Factor in Scottish Property Relations, c. 1870–1920

pp 39-55

3 - The Factor and Railway Promotion in the Scottish Highlands: The West Highland Railway

pp 56-74

Part II - The Transnational Land Agent: Managing Land in the Four Nations and Beyond

pp 75-76

4 - Divisions of Labour: Inter-managerial Conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Agents

pp 77-92

5 - The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850–1900

pp 93-108

6 - Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean Plantation Manager, 1792–1822

pp 109-130

Part III - Challenges and Catastrophe: The Land Agent under Fire

pp 131-132

7 - The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849–50: Crisis and Confrontation on the Londonderry Estates in County Down

pp 133-152

8 - Frustrations and Fears: The Impact of the Rebecca Riots on the Land Agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843

pp 153-167

9 - The Evolution of the Irish Land Agent: The Management of the Blundell Estate in the Eighteenth Century

pp 168-183

10 - ‘Between two interests’: Pennant A. Lloyd's Agency of the Penrhyn Estate, 1860–77

pp 184-202

Part IV - Social Memory and the Land Agent

pp 203-204

11 - John Campbell (‘Am Baillidh Mor’), Chamberlain to the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll: Tradition and Social Memory

pp 205-224

12 - ‘Castle government’: The Psychologies of Land Management in Northern Scotland, c. 1830–90

pp 225-240

Postscript

pp 241-242

13 - The Land Agent in Fiction

pp 243-248

14 - Poor Beasts

pp 249-255

Index

pp 256-260