INDEX Aberdeenshire, 80 185, 189, 191, 199, 207-8 Aberystwyth, 98 Balfour, A. J. (Earl), 50-51, 57, Acland, (Sir) F. D., 190 71, 76, 80-84, 87-8, 134, 149, Acland-Troyte, Lt-Col., 207 150 Adamson, William, 175 Balfour, Gerald, 125-6 "Agrarian outrages", 26 Balfour, J. B., 64, 66 Agricultural Holdings Bills, Acts: Balfour Land Purchase Act (1891), (1875), 17, 42; (1883), 43, 65, 83-5 97; (1900), 122; (1906), see Balfour, Lord, of Burleigh, 119, Land Tenure Bill, Act 149, 165 Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Bill Ballot Act (1872), 97 (1930-31), 199-200 Banbury, Sir Frederick, 169 Agricultural Marketing Act (1933), Barclay, J. W., 55 209 Barvas, 89 Agricultural Rating Bill, Acts: Ben Lee, 62 (1896), 122, 188; (1923), 184, Bessborough Commission, 32-3 188-9; (1925), 189 Bethn4 Green, 45 Agriculture Act (1937), 209 Beveridge, Sir William (Lord), 190 Aignish, 89 Bewdley, 191 Albert Hall, 135 Birkenhead (1st Earl; F. E. Smith), Allotments, 103-6, 108, 122, 130, 149, 177-8, 188 139, 159, 172, 194 Birmingham, 48 Allotments Act (1887), 104, 106, Birrell, A., 136-8 130 Blackie, J. 5., 66 Allotments & Smallholdings Act Black Isle, 67 (1907), 139 Blaenau Festiniog (Ffestiniog), 99 America, 26-7, 29, 34, 43, 136 Bornaskitaig, 88 Anti-Tithe League (Welsh), 100- Boycotting, 31, 34-5 101 Bracedale, 91 Argyll, 67-8, 71, 86 Bradlaugh, Charles, 28 Argyll, 8th Duke of, 50-1, 67-8 Braes, 63-4, 72 Armistice (1918), 171 "Bright Clauses", 25 Arnold, Sydney (Lord), 156 Bright, John, 18, 25, 135 Arrears Act, 35 Britain's Industrial Future, 95 Ashbourne Act, 52-3, 55-6, 82 Broadhurst, Henry, 45 Asquith, H. H. (1st Earl of Oxford Brown, A. C., 112 & Asquith), 142, 144, 155, 157, "Brown Book", 192-3 160, 170-78, 180, 182, 192-3 Brown, Ernest, 203, 205 Attlee, Clement (Earl), 212 Bryce, James (Viscount), 136-7 "Buckshot Forster", 30 Baldwin, Stanley (1st Earl), 165-6, Budgets: (1894), 116; (1908), 231 142; (1909), 134, 138, 143-9, Church of Wales, 96-9, 102 155-6, 179, 180; (1914), 166; Churchill, (Sir) Winston, 141, (1923), 184; (1924), 187; 160, 188, 212 (1931), 202-5; (1932), 207; Clanricarde, Marquis of, 80-83 (1933), 207; (1934), 208 Clanronald, 61 Budget League, 145-6 Clarke, Dr G. B., 68-9, 99, 118 Budget Protest League, 145 Clashmore, 88 Bull, Sir William, 184 Clwyd, 99, 100 Burns, John, 139, 147 Coal, 198-9 Butt, Isaac, 27, 29 Coal and Power, 199 Coalitions: (1915-22), 170-73, Caernarvonshire, 98, 100 182; (1940-45), 210-12 Caithnessshire, 68, 99, 111 Cobden, Richard, 18, 21, 135 Cameron, Donald (Lochiel), 70 Coercion Acts (Ireland), 30-31, Cameron, MacDonald, 69 34-5, 78-9 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, Coigach, 90 134-5, 140-42 Collings, Jesse, 56, 65, 104, 150, Capital Levy, 181 165 Cardiff, 117-18 Commons, 17-18 Cardiganshire, 98, 100-101 Commonwealth Land Party, 176 Carmarthenshire, 98, 100 Community Land Bill (1975), 215 Carrington, Earl, 138-9 Compensation for Disturbance Catholics, 22, 31, 65, 79, 129 Bill (1880), 30, 50 Cattle, 19 Congested Districts, 56, 81, 84-6, Cave Committee, 171 92, 124, 126, 128, 137-8 Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 35-6 Connaught, 21, 82 Central Land and Housing Coun- Conservatives, 29, 51-7, 64, 67-9, cil, 160, 164 76, 101-5, 114-22, 125-6, 129- Chamberlain, (Sir) Austen, 149, 30, 134-8, 144-50, 157-8, 164- 150, 158, 179, 180, 184, 187 6, 169-73, 176, 179, 184-8, Chamberlain, Joseph, 16, 18-20, 191, 195-6, 199-200, 203-8, 34-5, 48-57, 65, 69-72, 77, 83, 214 86, 98, 103-4, 134, 149, 150, "Constructive Unionism", 125 184 Cornwall, 164 Chamberlain, Neville, 184, 205-9 County Agricultural Committees, Champion, H. H., 47 195 Chaplin, Henry (Viscount), 105- County Councils, 105, 177 6, 121-2 Channing, Francis (Lord), 121 Cowper Report, 30-31, 82 China, 26 Cox, Harold, 135 Christian Socialist, 47-8 Crewe, 158 Church of England, 22, 96-7, 99, Crewe, Marquis of, 147 102 Criccieth, 99 Church of Ireland, 22 Crimes Act (1887), 79 Church of Scotland, 72 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 204 232 Crofters' Bill, Act, 67, 86, 90-91, Education Act (1870), 29 140 Edward VII, 134, 148 Crofters' Commission, 70-71, 88, Edwards, Enoch, 157 91-2 Egan, Patrick, 34 "Crofters' Party", 68-71, 86, 99 Elibank, Master of (Lord Murray). Crofters' Relief Bill (1887), 86 157 Croke, Archbishop, 31 Elland, 173 "Cultivating Tenure", 191 Ellis, Thomas E., 99 Cumberland, 40 Ellor Estates, 80 Cwrs y Bud, 98 Emigration, 21, 25 Enclosures, 17 Daily Herald, 156 Daily Telegraph, 145 Encumbered Estates, 17, 22 Dartmouth, Earl of, 170-71 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 Darwin, Charles, 46 Entails, 18 Davies, David (Lord), 193 Ernle, Lord. See Prothero Davitt, Michael, 21, 27-8, 31, 33, Evictions, 77 36, 43-7, 53-4, 78, 97-9 Ex-servicemen, 171, 176-7 Death Duties, 116 Deer Forests, 61, 88-91 "Fair Rent". See "Three Es" De Forest, Baron, 161 Famine, Irish, 21, 84 Denbighshire, 99 Farmers' Alliance, 42 Derby (15th Earl), 17, 33, 55 Fawcett, Henry, 18 Derbyshire, 99-100, 146 Fenians, 27-8 Development Charge, 213-15 Fermanagh, Co., 128-9 Devon, 164 Finance Bills, Acts. See Budgets Devonshire, 8th Duke of. See Finney, Samuel, 157 Hartington, Marquis of "Fixity of Tenure". See "Three Dilke, Sir Charles, 18, 55-6 Es" Dillon, John, 77-80 Flintshire, 98-100 Dillon, Lord, 85 Ford, Patrick, 28, 36 Dingwall, 77 Forster, W. E., 29-31, 34-5 Distraint, 100 Fortnightly Review, 49 "Double Taxation", 144, 204-5 Fowler, H. H. (Viscount Wolver- Dublin, 30, 36, 65, 128 hampton), 115, 121 Dudley Commission, 137-8 "Frankfort Tax", 144 Dumfermline, 173, 175 Fraser, Major, 66 Dumfries, 192 Free Church of Scotland, 61 Dumfriesshire, 117 Freeman's Journal, 54 Dundee, 118 "Free Sale". See "Three Es" Dunraven, Earl of, 128 Free Trade, 16, 18, 134-5, 145, Dustan, Dr, 176 164 Dunvegan, 64, 66-88 Gaelic, 60 East Anglia, 102 Galway, Co., 80,126-7 Edinburgh, 66, 112, 145, 204-5 Gee, Thomas, 100 233 General Elections: (1868) 97; Harcourt, Lewis (Viscount), 144 (1874), 27; (1880), 29; (1885), Harcourt, Sir William, 61, 67, 70, 31, 50, 53, 67-8, 72, 98; (1886), 116-17, 144 56; (1892), 115; (1895), 117; Hardie, J. Keir, 115 (1906), 134-6, 141; (Jan., Dec. Harrington, T. C., 77 1910), 148; (1918), 171-2; Harris, Isle of, 89 (1922), 182; (1923), 185; Hartington, Marquis of (8th Duke (1924), 187, 189; (1929), 195- of Devonshire), 25, 35, 50, 55- 6; (1931), 206; (1945), 212 7, 77, 83, 120 General Strike (1926), 193 Hawick, 112 George, Henry, 43-9, 51, 66, 72, Headlam, Stewart, 45 106, 111-14, 117-18, 134-5, Healy, Bishop, 80-81 145 Hemmerde, E. G., 156, 175 George, D. Lloyd (Earl Lloyd- Henderson, Arthur, 185 George), 42, 99, 102-3, 134, Henderson, H. D., 190 138, 141-5, 155-6, 170-71, Herbista, 88 174-80, 185, 188-91, 194, 198- Hesiod, 217 9, 204-5 High Peak, 146 Germany, 144 Highland Clearances, 61 Gladstone, W. E., 21, 29, 32-4, Highland Land Law Reform As- 42, 47-8, 50, 54-6, 61-2, 78, sociation, 64-6, 91, 111 86, 99, 114-17, 124, 136, 142 Highlander, 61, 65 Glasgow, 47, 71-2, 113, 117-18, Hirst, F. W., 185 135, 139, 162, 173 Holbourn, J. G., 117 "Glasgow Bill", 139 Holmfirth, 116-18 Glendale, 64, 67, 90 Holywell, 98 Glengarry, 61 Home Rule, 53.6, 70, 76, 78, 99, Gordon, General C. G., 26 124, 136, 164 Gorst, (Sir) John, 66 Horsham, 159 Goschen, George (Viscount), 55 Housing, 159, 160, 162, 165, 187, Goulding, K. A., 149 210-11 "Green Book", 191-2, 193, 195 Housing Act (1924), 187 Gregory, St, 111 Housing and Town Planning Bill Grey, Sir Edward (Viscount), 146- (1909), 147 7 Humphreys-Owen, A. C., 17, 101 Ground Game Act (1880), 42 Hutchison, Sir Robert (Lord), Ground Rent. See Land Value 203, 205 Taxing, Site Value Rating Guild of St Matthew's, 45 Illingworth, Percy, 160, 164 Gwynedd, 97 Independent Labour Party, 72, 118, 174-5 Habeas Corpus, 31 Inverness, Invernessshire, 61, 64, Haldane, R. B. (Viscount), 114, 67, 69, 71 186 Irish Church Act (1869), 24-5 Hanley, 157-8, 165, 169, 175 Irish Labourers Act (1906), 136 234 Irish Land Bills, Acts: (1870), 25, Lancashire, 164 82; (1881), 32-5, 51-2, 55, 68, Land Acquisition Bill (1919), 117- 70, 78, 82, 125, 217; (1887), 18 78-9, 82; (1909), 137-8 Land Bank, 150 Irish Land Question, 45, 47 Land Bonds, 194 Irish Local Government Board, 85 Land Campaign (1913-14), Irish National Land League. See 160-66 Land League Land Commission (1965), 215 Irish National League. See Na- Land Courts, 34, 36 tional League Land Enquiry Committee, 158-66 Irish National Party, 27-32, 53-6, Land and Labour League, 18, 107 76, 83-4, 115-16, 119-20, 135- Landlord and Tenant Bill (1927), 6, 141, 148 194 Irish Republican Brotherhood, 77 Land League (Highland).' See Irish Times. 26 Highland Land Law Reform Irish World, 28-9, 36, 44 Association Ivory, Sheriff W., 63, 67, 87 Land League (Irish), 28-36, 44-5, 63-4 James, Sir Henry (Lord), 55 Land League (Welsh), 99, 101 Jones, Rev. Evan (Pan), 98 Land and the Nation. See "Green Jones, Rev. Michael Daniel, 98 Book" Kennet, See Young, E. Hilton Land and Nation League, 192-4 Kerr, Hugh, 88 Land Nationalisation, 45-6, 106-7. Keynes, Maynard (Lord), 190 118, 161, 163, 191, 218 Killerton, 190 Land Purchase, 33, 52, 55-6, 68, Kilmainham Jail, 34-6 83-5, 106, 124-30. See also Kilmuir, 66 Ashbourne Act, Balfour Act. Kinsale, 62 Wyndham Act Kyle of Lochalsh, 91 Land Question, 45 Land Reform Union, 46 Labouchère, Henry, 53 Land Restoration Leagues: Eng- Labour Party, 115-16, 135-6, 146, lish, 46-7, 106-7; Scottish, 47 148, 155-6, 162, 170-79, 181- Land Settlement Bill, Act (1919), 7, 191, 194-206, 209-10, 213- 175-6 14 Land Tenure Reform Association, Labour Representation Commit- 18 tee, 135-6 Land Tenure Bills, Acts: (1895), Labour Representation League, 121; (1906), 138 18-19 Land Value Taxing, 112-15, 117- Labourers (agricultural), 23, 40- 19, 136, 139, 142-6, 149, 155- 41, 53, 97, 103, 106, 122, 159- 8, 169, 172-7, 180-82, 192-3, 60, 165, 191, 194 203-10, 219, 220 Ladies' Land League, 34-5 Land Values, 172 Lambert, George (Viscount), 207 Land War, Irish, 26, 36, 40, 60 Lanarkshire, N. W., 117 Lands, Ministry of, 159, 166 235 Lansdowne, Marquis of, 50-51, 135, 146, 149, 169, 209, 210 149, 166 Long Island, 88, 91 Law, A. Bonar, 149, 165-6, 179, Lords, House of, 52, 71, 116, 138, 182, 185, 188 140-49, 154-5, 200-202 Law of Property Act (1925), 188 Lothian, Marquis of, 89-91 Lawrence, Susan, 201 Lovatt, Lord, 64 Layton, Sir Walter (Lord), 190 Lucan, Lord, 85 Leaseholds, 24, 33, 45, 78, 112, Lucretius, 169 163, 194 Lyell, Leonard, 69 Leeds, 160 Leigh, 173 Macdonald, Alec, 62-3, 87 Leinster, 21 Macdonald, Dr, 69, 71 Leitrim, Co., 126 MacDonald, J. Ramsay, 155, 185- Lewis, 60, 67, 70, 88-91 6, 196, 199-201, 208 Leyton, West, 178 Macdonald, Lord, of the Isles, Liberals, 50, 52-7, 67-8, 70, 79, 61-2 99, 101, 106-7, 111-17, 120- MacDonnell, Sir Antony (Lord), 21, 124, 127-9, 130, 134-8, 140, 127-8, 137 145-50, 155-7, 160, 162, 164, Macfarlane, Donald, 65-6, 68, 71 170-82, 185-93, 195-6, 199, McKenna, Reginald, 140 203-4, 207 McKenna Duties, 187 Liberal Land Committee, 190-91 Mackenzie, Sir Kenneth, 61, 69 Liberal Land Conference (1926), Mackintosh, C. Fraser, 69, 86 193-4 MacLaren, Andrew, 195, 200 Liberal Nationals, 207-8 Maclean, Sir Donald, 178 Liberal Unionists, 56, 77-8, 83, Macleod, 61 86, 103-4, 115-17, 120, 125 Macmillan, Harold, 214 Liberty and Property Defence Macnamara, Dr T., 119 League, 107 Macpherson, John, 64 Limehouse, 146 Madsen, A. W., 208 Liverpool, 120 Mallaig, 91 Lianarmon, 100 Malmesbury, Earl of, 165 Llandrynog, 99 Manchester, 114, 160, 176 Llandudno, 201 Marx, H. Karl, 48 Llanefydd, 100 Masterman, C. F. G., 147 Llangwm, 100 Maxwell, Shaw, 72, 108 Liannor, 100 "May Committee", 206 Lloyd George. See George Mayo, Co., 28, 34, 84-5, 126 Lloyd George Fund, 190 Melchett. See Mond Local Government, 112 if., 163 Memorial, Land Taxing: (1908), Local Taxation, Royal Commis- 142; (1911), 155; (1946), 213 sion on (1901), 119 Merioneth, 98 Lochiel. See Cameron, Donald Mill, J. 5., 18 Lochs, 88 "Minority Report", 119, 149, 165 London, 101, 103, 113, 115, 118, Mitchell, Edward, 128-9 236 Mitcheistown, 79 Oban, 61 Mochdre, 100 O'Brien, William, 31-2, 77-8, 80, Moderates (LCC), 149 84, 86, 126, 129, 130 Mond, Sir Alfred (Lord Melchett), Orangemen. See Ulster 193 Origin of Species, 46 Money, Sir Leo Chiozza, 135 Orinsay, 90 Montgomeryshire, 101 Orkney and Zetland, 69 Moray Firth, 67 Outhwaite, R. L., 154, 157, 159, Morley, Earl, 55 162, 169, 170, 173, 175-6, 192 Morley, John (Viscount), 33, 56, Oxford, and Asquith, Earl of. See 79, 124-5 Asquith Morrison, Herbert (Lord), 209, 210, 212 Paisley, 176 Mull, 61 Paris, 34 Munro-Ferguson, R. C. (Novar), Parish Councils, 121-2 69 Park Raid. See New Park Forest Murdoch, John, 65 Parliament Bill, Act (1911), 148, Murray, Lord. See Elibank 154-5 Parmoor, Lord, 185-6, 201 Napier Commission, 65-7 Parnell, C. S., 27-8, 31-6, 43-7, National Democratic Party, 173 52-3 77-8, 84 National Government, 206 Parochial Boards (Skye), 87 National Labour Party, 207-8 Partington, Oswald, 146 National League (Irish National Passfield. See Webb Land League), 36, 45, 47, 54, Patagonia, 98 64, 77, 79 Peasant-proprietorship, 43-4, 47, National Liberal Federation, 48, 81-2, 92, 103, 122, 136, 193 114, 160, 170. See also Liberals Pembrokeshire, 100 National Unionist Association, Pembryn, 101 179 Pentland, Lord. See Sinclair, John Nationalisation (industrial), 181, Pentland Act, 154, 209 212. See also Land National- Phoenix Park, 36 isation Plan of Campaign, 77-81, 85, 87 New Park Forest Raid, 88 Ponsonby, Arthur (Lord), 173, 175 Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 134 Portree, 63, 66 "Newcastle Programme", 114-15 Portumna, 80 Newcastle-under-Lyme, 157, 172- Potatoes, 9, 21, 25, 36 3 Pretyman, E. G., 149, 165-6, 178 No Rent Manifesto, 34-5 Primogeniture, 18 Nonconformists, 96-7, 100-102 Pringle, W. M. R., 176 Norfolk, Duke of, 79 Procurator-Fiscal (Skye), 64, 66 Norfolk, N. W., 156-8 Progress and Poverty, 43-6 North Uist, 67 Protection, 185, 188 Northern Ensign, 69-70 Prothero, R. E. (Lord ErnIe), 171, Novar. See Munro-Ferguson 176-7 237 Pwllheli, 100 12, 140, 155 Seaforth, 61 Radical Group, 189, 190 Selborne, Lord, 55 Radical Programme, 49, 50, 69, Shaw, William, 26 103 Shawe-Taylor, Captain, 127-8 Raifan, P. Wilson, 161, 173, 176, Silkin, Lewis (Lord), 212 178 Railways, 91 Simon, Sir John (Viscount), 176, Rating. See Site Value Rating, 203,205 Agriculture, etc. Sinclair, Clarence, 68 Sinclair, John (Lord Pentland), "Red Vans", 106-7 139, 140, 154 Redmond, John, 54, 136 Sinclair, Sir Tollemache, 68-9 "Reform Act" (1884), 52 "Single Tax", 111-14, 174 Rendel, Stuart (Lord), 17, 101 Site Value Rating, 113, 116, 118- Richmond, Duke of, 17, 42-3 Riot Act, 100 20, 150, 163. See also Land Value Taxing Rogers, Thorold, 18 Rosebery, Earl, 116-17 Skye, 60-67, 70, 87, 90-91, 111 Skye Land League, 111 Ross and Cromarty, Rossshire, 69, Skye Vigilance Committee, 64 90 "Round Table Conference", 57, Sligo, Co., 126 61igo, Lord, 85 87 Roxburghe, Lord, 55 Smallholdings, 49, 103-8, 123, Runciman, Walter (1st Viscount), 139, 140, 150, 154-5, 159, 172, 189, 192 191, 194, 209 Runrig, 57 Smith, Adam, 18 Smith, F. E. See Birkenhead Rural League, 165 Rusholme, 176 Smuts, General Jan, 169 Ruthin, 100 Snowden, Philip (Viscount), 184- 7, 196, 200-207 Salisbury (3rd Marquis), 32, 50- Socialism, 15, 47-8, 118, 150, 219 53, 56-7, 67, 76-8, 81, 83, 116- South Caernarvonshire Anti-Tithe 17, 134 League, 103 Samuel, Sir Herbert (Viscount), South Uist, 89, 90 199 Souttar, Robinson, 117 Sankey Commission, 199 Spen Valley, 176 Saunders, William, 107 Spencer, Earl, 36, 52 Scotland, 22, 40, 53, 60 if., 86 if., Staffin, 66 111, 117, 135, 139, 140, 149, Stafford, Marquis of, 69 177, 181, 209, 213 Star, 113 Scotsman, 67 Steel-Maitland, Sir Arthur, 166 Scottish Land Values Bills, 120, Stoke-upon-Trent, 157, 176 139, 140, 143 Stoneybridge, 90 Scottish League for Taxation of Stornoway, 90 Land Values, 113 Strachie, Lord, 207 Scottish Liberal Association, 111- Strickland, 85 238 Suffolk, 106 Uthwatt Committee, Report, 211, Sutherland, 62, 86, 88 213 Sutherland, Duke of, 69 Swindon, 160 Valtos, 67 Valuation, Land, 143, 177-9, 187, Talbot, Lord Edmund, 166 198, 200-202, 206. See also "Tariff Reform", 134, 141, 145 Land Value Taxing Tenant-right, 18, 24-5 Victoria, Queen, 29, 35, 55, 77, Tenants' Relief Bill (1886), 77 173 "Three acres", 49, 50, 53 "Three Fs" 28, 32-3, 40, 42, 66, Wales, 22, 30, 53, 96 if. 68-70, 100-101, 124, 217-18 Wall Street Crash, 198 Times, The, 54-5, 90, 96, 98 Wallace, A. R., 46-9, 51, 118, 129 Thee, 67 Webb, Sidney and Beatrice (Pass- Tithes, 99-102, 122 field), 117 Town and Country Planning Bills, Wedgwood, J. C. (Lord), 157, 169- Acts: (1944), 211-12; (1947), 76, 180, 185-6, 195-6, 200-201 212-15, 218 Wedgwood, Dame Veronica, 186 Town and Country Planning, Min- Welsh Land, Commercial and istry of, 211-12 Labour League, 101 Towns and the Land. See "Brown Welsh Land Commission (1896), Book" 97, 100 Trade Unions, 106, 117-18, 157 Welsh National Liberal Council, Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 119, 120, 141 139, 161-2, 169, 170, 173, 175 Wesleyans, 96 Trevelyan, Sir G. 0., 70 West Ham South, 115 Tyrone, Co., South, 32 White, J. Dundas, 173, 175 Wheatley, John, 187 Uig, 66 Whigs, 50-51, 54-7, 69, 70, 140 Uist. See North, South Uist Wick Burghs, 69 Ullapool, 61 Wolverhampton. See Fowler Ulster, 21, 29, 53, 76, 82, 126, Woodford, 80 128-9, 164 World War: (1914), 169 if.; Ulster Custom, 24-5, 28 (1939), 210 if. Ulster Tenants' Defence Associa- Wyndham, George, 126-30, 149 tion, 82 Wyndham Land Purchase Act Unemployment, 103, 145, 181, (1903), 127-30, 136-7 188, 192, 198 Unionists. See Conservatives, "Yellow Book", 195 Liberal Unionists Young, E. Hilton (Lord Kennet), United Committee for the Taxa- 193 tion of Land Values, 142, 161- "Yellow Vans", 106-7 2, 186 Yorkshire, 149, 156 United Irish League, 126 Usborne, Thomas, 122 Zinoviev Letter, 187 239