Charles Cunningham Boycott

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Charles Cunningham Boycott. Caricature by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair January 29, 1881

Charles Cunningham Boycott (born March 12, 1832 in Burgh St. Peter , Norfolk , England , † June 19, 1897 in Flixton , Suffolk , England) was a British land manager in Ireland and captain of the British Army . The term boycott or boycott goes back to him .

Life

Boycott was hired in 1880 by John Crichton 3rd Earl of Erne as a land manager on his lands in the Irish county of Mayo on the island of Achill . Boycott was reputed to be a bad man. Ostensibly as a result of his administration, but basically because of the disparity between "landlords" and tenants that has been characteristic of Ireland since the 17th century , the farmers of Lough Mask refused to pay the rent in Boycotts' first year in office. His behavior towards the tenants ultimately led to no one wanting to work for him anymore, buy from him or sell to him. Boycott threatened legal action and finally deployed unemployed, loyal Protestant workers from Ulster in November 1880 to bring in the harvest under the protection of about a thousand soldiers . He himself was also taken to another location under military protection. Thereupon all tenants and farm workers terminated the contracts. A resolution by the Irish Land League , founded in 1879, officially allowed them to avoid Boycott and not do business with him. Even the railroad refused to transport his cattle back then. This decision also the first time the term appears boycott ( English to boycott ) on.

In November 1880, the term was Boycotting ( "boycott") for this type of resistance used by the newspaper London Times.

The united and unyielding demeanor of the Irish Land League eventually forced Boycott to emigrate from Ireland .

See also

literature

  • Joyce Marlow: Captain Boycott and the Irish. London 1973.
  • Theodore W. Moody: Davitt and Irish revolution. Oxford 1981.
  • JK Tebrake: Irish peasant women in revolt. The Land League years. In: Irish Historical Studies. Volume 28, 1992, pp. 63-80.

Web links

Commons : Charles Cunningham Boycott  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online edition of Britannica (English)
  2. ^ Report of the WDR
  3. ↑ Ireland Lexicon
  4. ↑ Handelsblatt, January 25, 2008, p. 19
  5. ^ Report of the WDR
  6. ↑ www.jpca.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Boycott, Charles Cunningham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British land manager in Ireland
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgh St. Peter , Norfolk , England
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1897
Place of death Flixton , Suffolk , England