1. Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott.
24 Facts About Charles Boycott
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Charles Boycott had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
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Opposition to the campaign against Charles Boycott became a in the British press after he wrote a letter to The Times.
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Charles Boycott left Ireland on 1 December 1880, and in 1886, became land agent for Hugh Adair's Flixton estate in Suffolk.
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Charles Boycott died at the age of 65 on 19 June 1897 in his home in Flixton, after an illness earlier that year.
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Charles Boycott was educated at a boarding school in Blackheath, London.
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Charles Boycott was ill between August 1851 and February 1852 and sold his commission the following year, but decided to remain in Ireland.
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Charles Boycott leased a farm in County Tipperary, where he acted as a landlord on a small scale.
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McGregor Blacker agreed to sublet 2,000 acres of land belonging to the Irish Church Mission Society on Achill to Charles Boycott, who moved there in 1854.
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Charles Boycott was involved in a number of disputes while on Achill.
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Charles Boycott said that he had asked for repayment of the debt, and that Boycott had refused to pay him and told him to go away, which Clarke refused to do.
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Charles Boycott had withdrawn privileges from the tenants, such as collecting wood from the estate.
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Many of the richest were absentee landlords who lived in Britain or elsewhere in Ireland, and paid agents like Charles Boycott to manage their estates.
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Charles Boycott was arrested and given a 15-year sentence for gun-running.
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Charles Boycott thought that the "land question" was the best way to get the support of the farmers for Irish independence.
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Charles Boycott then issued demands for the outstanding rents, and obtained eviction notices against eleven tenants.
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Charles Boycott said that many of his servants were forced to leave "under threat of ulterior consequences".
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Charles Boycott said that the government would consider it their duty to protect this group.
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Charles Boycott himself said that he did not want such a large number of South Ulstermen, as he had saved the grain harvest himself, and that only ten or fifteen labourers were needed to save the root crops.
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Charles Boycott had intended to stay in Dublin for a week, but Boycott was advised to cut his stay short.
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In 1886, Charles Boycott became a land agent for Hugh Adair's Flixton estate in Suffolk, England.
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Charles Boycott had a passion for horses and racing, and became secretary of the Bungay race committee.
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Charles Boycott continued to spend holidays in Ireland, and according to Joyce Marlow, he left Ireland without bitterness.
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Charles Boycott's health continued to deteriorate, and on 19 June 1897 he died at his home in Flixton, aged 65.