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7 de ago. de 2019 · Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn 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. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures.
Patrick Sellar was born on 5 December 1780, the only son of Thomas Sellar, solicitor and his wife Jean Plenderleath, daughter of an Edinburgh minister. Patrick had a privileged childhood, was educated at Edinburgh University and joined his father’s flourishing legal practice in 1803, some five years before his father purchased the estate of Westfield near Elgin.
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SELLAR, PATRICK (1780–1851), of Westfield, Morayshire, factor to George Granville Leveson-Gower, first duke of Sutherland [q. v.], was only son of Thomas Sellar of Westfield by Jane, daughter of the Rev. Patrick Plenderleath, an Edinburgh minister. After a legal education in Edinburgh, he became factor to the Duke of Sutherland, and was ...
Characterisation. McGrath blends historical fact with contemporary fiction in his characterisation. His cast mixes recognisable figures such as Queen Victoria, Patrick Sellar and Harriet Beecher ...
Ardtornish was inherited by his sister Gertrude, who had married Alexander Craig Sellar, Patrick Sellar's son in 1870. Gertrude took on the management of the estate until 1909 when she handed it over to her unmarried son Gerard, then 38 years old.
8 de feb. de 2020 · E ven those historians who have ‘repeatedly put Patrick Sellar on trial’, to borrow a phrase from Ian Grimble, have conceded one aspect of his legacy, that he was ‘a great farmer.’ An important element of this reputation was his improvement of the farm at Culmaily which was his first venture into farming, initially in partnership with Estate Commissioner William Young.
