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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.
Patrick Sellar Now that capital funding was available, the first big sheep farm was let at Lairg in 1807, involving the removal of about 300 people. Many of these did not accept their new homes and emigrated, to the dissatisfaction of the estate management and Lady Sutherland.
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.
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.
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 images of extirpation, genocide and even the Holocaust (Richards, 1999, p. 5).
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.
