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- catalog abstract ""James Hamilton, the eighth earl of Abercorn, preferred to live in a fine classical house built for him in Edinburgh in the 1760s by the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, although he had considerable property about London and in Ireland. The Irish estates in the counties of Tyrone and Donegal had been accumulated by his ancestors during and after the plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century and when he succeeded his father in 1744 they covered almost one hundred square miles. Although Abercorn was an absentee, the scale, the range and the substance of the correspondence he maintained with his Irish agents reveals the extent and depth of his knowledge of life on the estates. Several agents kept him well informed and in the years between 1757 and the earl's death in 1789, one of them, also named James Hamilton, wrote very detailed letters that enabled the earl to make decisions on a wide variety of matters. They cover changing relationships with tenants and undertenants, efforts to promote the economic and social development of the estate, and the problems of his agents in coping with food crises and natural disasters."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12407959.
- catalog coverage "Donegal (Ireland : County) History, Local Sources.".
- catalog coverage "Tyrone (Northern Ireland) History, Local Sources.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""James Hamilton, the eighth earl of Abercorn, preferred to live in a fine classical house built for him in Edinburgh in the 1760s by the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, although he had considerable property about London and in Ireland. The Irish estates in the counties of Tyrone and Donegal had been accumulated by his ancestors during and after the plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century and when he succeeded his father in 1744 they covered almost one hundred square miles. Although Abercorn was an absentee, the scale, the range and the substance of the correspondence he maintained with his Irish agents reveals the extent and depth of his knowledge of life on the estates.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Several agents kept him well informed and in the years between 1757 and the earl's death in 1789, one of them, also named James Hamilton, wrote very detailed letters that enabled the earl to make decisions on a wide variety of matters. They cover changing relationships with tenants and undertenants, efforts to promote the economic and social development of the estate, and the problems of his agents in coping with food crises and natural disasters."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "73 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century.".
- catalog identifier "071652743X (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century.".
- catalog isPartOf "Maynooth studies in Irish local history ; no. 35".
- catalog isPartOf "Maynooth studies in local history ; no. 35.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press,".
- catalog relation "Management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century.".
- catalog spatial "Donegal (Ireland : County) History, Local Sources.".
- catalog spatial "Tyrone (Northern Ireland) History, Local Sources.".
- catalog spatial "Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)".
- catalog subject "333.5/4/0941609033 21".
- catalog subject "Abercorn, James Hamilton, Earl of, 1712-1789 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Absentee landlordism Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Administration of estates Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "DA990.U452 A244 2001".
- catalog subject "Landlord and tenant Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Landlords Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Correspondence.".
- catalog title "The management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century : the eighth earl of Abercorn and his Irish agents / William H. Crawford.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Local history. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".