“demands. He then issued demands for the outstanding rents, and obtained eviction notices against eleven tenants. Three days after Parnell”
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Charles Boycott
Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland. After retiring from the army, Boycott worked as a land agent for Lord Erne, a landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo.
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business · English land agent who operated in Lough Mask (1832–1897) · entrepreneur · also Charles Boycott, Charles Cunningham Boycott, Charles Cunningham Boycatt, Captain Boycott, Boycott
Born 12 March 1832 · Died 19 June 1897 · Q455534
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2026· 2 entries
“under threat of ulterior consequences”
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1897· 1 entry
Died 1897-06-19.
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1888· 1 entry
The word was included in the first volume of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (later known as The Oxford English Dictionary)
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1886· 2 entries
Became land agent for Hugh Adair's Flixton estate in Suffolk
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Boycott became a land agent for Hugh Adair's Flixton estate in Suffolk, England
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1880· 3 entries
As part of a campaign for free sale, fixity of tenure, and fair rent, and specifically in resistance to proposed evictions on the estate, local activists of the Irish National Land League encouraged Boycott's employees,
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Parnell was also elected leader of the Home Rule Party
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The Illustrated London News described how "To 'Boycott' has already become a verb active, signifying to 'ratten', to intimidate, to 'send to Coventry', and to 'taboo'"
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1876· 1 entry
The government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commissioned a survey to find who owned the land in Ireland
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1873· 1 entry
Boycott moved to Lough Mask House, owned by Lord Erne, four miles (6 km) from Ballinrobe in County Mayo
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1860· 1 entry
Carr wrote a letter to the Receiver of Wreck stating that Boycott and his men had illegally broken up a wreck and moved the salvage to Boycott's property
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1849· 1 entry
After failing a periodic exam, and the following year his family bought him a commission in the 39th Foot regiment for £450 (equivalent to £71,000 in 2024)
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1848· 1 entry
Entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in hopes of serving in the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-03-12.
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