Financing the Landed Estate

Unravels the financial story of the Marquis of Anglesey's estates in Dorset and SomersetCreates an understanding of the complexities of estate finances and administration and explores the role of the estate managerExamines the ways in which the estate sought to impose social control through the spending of monies on items such as education, paying voting incentives and the negotiating of rental agreementsExplores how the estate formed part of an economy of expedience through the setting up of local industries, charitable payments to the poor, food, clothing and coal allowances

Autorentext

Carol Beardmore holds Research Fellowships at the University of Leicester, UK and part-time lectureships at De Montfort University, UK, and the Open University, UK. Dr. Beardmore has had articles published in Rural History *and *Family and Community History and chapters in The Land Agent in Britain: Past, Present and Future (2016), Living the Family: A Study of Family Life, c.1650-1900 (2019) and Disability Matters (2018).

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Estate Finances and Administration.- 3. Working Relationships.- 4. Social Relationships.- 5. Politics and the Landed Estate.- 6. Social Control: Church, Charity and Education- 7. Conclusion.