‘They Sow the Wind, They Reap the Whirlwind’: Estate Management in the Post-Clearance Highlands, c. 1815-c. 1900

TY - JOUR

T1 - ‘They Sow the Wind, They Reap the Whirlwind’

T2 - Estate Management in the Post-Clearance Highlands, c. 1815-c. 1900

AU - Tindley, Annie

PY - 2012/5

Y1 - 2012/5

N2 - Highland factors were men of immense influence – social, political and economic – over often extensive territories and populations. The factor was the symbolic figure of estate authority, in place of often absentee or disinterested owners.The concentration of landownership into a small number of hands in Scotland generally and the Scottish Highlands in particular, led to a similar concentration of the management of those estates into a limited circle of administrators. This put a burden of immense responsibility and pressure on most Highland factors, with often negative results. Highland factory was a challenging role which physically and mentally broke many of its practitioners, as this article will illustrate.

AB - Highland factors were men of immense influence – social, political and economic – over often extensive territories and populations. The factor was the symbolic figure of estate authority, in place of often absentee or disinterested owners.The concentration of landownership into a small number of hands in Scotland generally and the Scottish Highlands in particular, led to a similar concentration of the management of those estates into a limited circle of administrators. This put a burden of immense responsibility and pressure on most Highland factors, with often negative results. Highland factory was a challenging role which physically and mentally broke many of its practitioners, as this article will illustrate.

U2 - 10.3366/nor.2012.0024

DO - 10.3366/nor.2012.0024

M3 - Article

SN - 0306-5278

VL - 3

SP - 66

EP - 85

JO - Northern Scotland

JF - Northern Scotland

IS - 1

ER -