The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland

A List of All Owners of Three Thousand Acres and Upwards, Worth £3,000 a Year, in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

By:

John Bateman

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

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First published in 1876, and reissued here in the 1878 edition that covered the entire British Isles, this important work utilised and corrected the 1873 Return of Owners of Land (known as the 'Modern Domesday Book'), the first post-Norman survey of British landholdings. John Bateman (1839–1910), a landowner himself recorded here, sought to amend numerous and significant errors in the Return, increasing its usability by grouping listings by owner rather than location. He further enhanced the record by giving many college and club affiliations - indicative of religious and political alignments. An analysis chapter overviews the distribution of holdings and highlights both lucrative and low-yielding estates. Bateman's apparent hope of justifying the existing landowning system in the British Isles was undermined by data which revealed the concentration of land in aristocratic hands, yet the work provides historians with a valuable snapshot of this system in its Victorian heyday.

Release date Australia

November 6th, 2014

Author

John Bateman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

518

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Dimensions

140x216x29

ISBN-13

9781108075954

Product ID

22582579

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