English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century

F.M.L. Thompson

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415848480
• eBook ISBN: 9781317828525
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group and includes much agrarian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. The first seven chapters of the book aim to present an analysis and description of the main elements in the institutions and way of life of the landed classes, suggesting their significance for society at large, and emphasizing the forces of change which were at work within an order which in many ways presented a remarkably stable appearance to the outside world. The last five chapters take up the theme of change and examine the dynamic elements in the economic social and political life of the group, in a sequence of chronological subdivisions of the century and a half with which this book is concerned.

Index

In the case of peers the family name of the first holder of a title is given in brackets. In general members of the nobility are indexed under the title which they finally held. Irish titles (I), and Scottish titles (S), are so marked.

Abercrombie, auditor-general to Duke of Devonshire, 167

Aberdare, 1st Baron (Bruce), 63

Aberdeen, 1st Marquess of, sale of estates, 329

Abinger, 1st Baron (Scarlett), Baron of Exchequer, 56

absentee landlords, 40, 158, 181–182

Acland family (Devon), 15

Addington, 1st Baron (Hubbard), 293

Addington, Henry, see Sidmoutn, 1st Viscount

advowsons, ownership of, 5, 40

Agar, Sir F., 123

agricultural crises and depressions; (1815–37), 231–237; (1821–3), 143, 222, 230–231; (1834–5), 197, 231; (1850–1), 197–198, 239, 240–242, 244–247, 253–254; (1873–96), 196, 204, 308–316; (1921), 331, 334; R.C. on (1879–82), 309

Agricultural Holdings Act; (1883), 196, 284; (1908), 284, 321

agricultural improvements, 246–256; expenditure on, 235–236, 247; yield on, 247, 248–252, 253–254; S.C. of H. of L. on (1873), 251–252. See also draining, enclosure, estate expenditure, farm buildings

agricultural labourers; distress of, 143; and poaching, 142–143; as voters, 196, 273; wages, 215

Agriculture; S.C. on State of (1833), 230, 233, 234; S.C. on State of (1836), 214n., 233, 234–235; ‘Golden Age’ of, 240–256. See also farming, owner-farmers, tenant farmers

Ailesbury, Caroline, dowager Countess of, 103; 1st Marquess of, 13, 89, 94, 102, 190, debts of, 89, house property, 256 and improvements, 253, and railways, 260, and rents, 238–239; 2nd Marquess of, 102; 3rd Marquess of, sale of Jervaulx, 297; 4th Marquess of, 298, 301, debts of, 319; 5th Marquess of, 298, 314; 6th Marquess of, sale of estate, 331–332. See also Jervaulx, Savernake

Albemarle, 6th Earl of, 288

Albury Park, Surrey, 37, 343; estate, 167; sale of part, 331

Aldenham,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Note on Abbreviations and Footnotes
• I. The Nature of Landed Society
• II. Aristocratic England
• III. The Institutions of the Landed Aristocracy
• IV. The Life of a Landed Aristocrat
• V. The Landed Gentry and County Society
• VI. The Management of the Landed Estates
• VII. Landowners and the Local Community
• VIII. Landed Estates in War and Peace, 1790–1835
• IX. Estates in the Railway Age, 1835–79
• X. The Decline of the Landed Interest, 1830–80
• XI. Indian Summer, 1880–1914
• XII. Eclipse, 1914–39
• Bibliography
• Index