The the Management of a Major Ulster Estate in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Eighth Earl of Abercorn and His Irish Agents Volume 35

by W.H. Crawford

James Hamilton, the eighth earl of Abercorn, preferred to live in a fine classical house built for him in Edinburgh in the 1960s by the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, although he had considerable property about London and in Ireland. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071652743X
• ISBN13: 9780716527435
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"