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  1. Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. He had a prominent and controversial role in the Highland clearances as factor on the Sutherland Estate, a particularly large landholding in the Scottish highlands.

  2. 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 […].

  3. Patrick Sellar is perhaps the individual most closely associated with the Highland clearances; as one of the most successful evictors and sheep farmers, accused but acquitted of culpable homicide, he is also one of the most vilified characters in Scottish history.

  4. Patrick Sellar, aged 70 years, died on 20 October 1851 at Park Place in Elgin. The entry in the Old Parish Register of burials for that parish records that he was buried in the...

  5. Patrick Sellar lived from 1780 to 1851. He was the estate factor of the 19th Countess of Sutherland during the most notorious episode in the Highland Clearances. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Patrick Sellar was born and brought up in Elgin.

  6. A balanced assessment of Patrick Sellar, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life.

  7. 15 de feb. de 2022 · In 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.