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Known for. Role in the Highland Clearances. Plaque in Inverness. Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. He had a prominent and controversial role in the Highland clearances as factor on the Sutherland Estate, a particularly large landholding in the Scottish highlands .
File not available. Share by e-mail. Patrick Sellar became a totemic figure in Scottish history, a figure of vilification, the strength of which has shown extraordinary stamina into the late twentieth century. His enduring infamy into the present is remarkable […]. In the literature of the Highland clearances, Sellar’s name is used to evoke ...
Sheep farmer and agent of Highland Clearances Patrick Sellar was factor to George, 1st duke of Sutherland, and became infamous for the way he treated tenants on his employer's estates. The...
Patrick Sellar (1780-1851) Patrick Sellar is perhaps the individual most closely associated with the Highland clearances; as one of the most successful evictors and sheep farmers, accused but acquitted of culpable homicide, he is also one of the most vilified characters in Scottish history.
The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that ...
- Eric Richards
- London
- 1985
History, British Studies, European Studies, Environmental Science, Sustainability. A balanced assessment of Patrick Sellar, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life.
15 de feb. de 2022 · About this book. Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award. In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands.
