Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920

Download or read book Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 written by Annie Tindley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades