Dorset Regiment Officers: 39th Regiment of Foot Officers, 54th Regiment of Foot Officers, Charles Boycott, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: 39th Regiment of Foot officers, 54th Regiment of Foot officers, Charles Boycott, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Louis Strange, Charles Sturt, Henry Havelock, Alfred Dudley Ward, Sir Walter Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, Brian Urquhart, Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet, Eyre Coote, Alec Waugh, Charles Lawrence, Harold Whistler, George Cartwright, Alured Clarke, Percy Vasey, John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, John Carnac, John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Colquhoun Grant, Hubert Greenhill, John Granby Clay, Charles Thomas van Straubenzee, George Airey, Robert Blucke, Richard Butler, Ernest Down, John Archer, Hubert Huddleston, John Woodhouse, Philip Weaver, Francis Gore, John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave, Francis Forde, Richard Onslow, Lauderdale Maule, Horace Phillips, Hubert Dinwoodie, Nicholas Gosselin, John Adlercron, Henry Barry, William Osborne Smith. Excerpt: Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (March 12, 1832 - June 19, 1897) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb to boycott, meaning to ostracise. Boycott's service in the British Army 39th Foot brought him to Ireland, where he later worked as a land agent for Lord Erne (John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne), the local landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo. In 1880, as part of its campaign for the Three Fs (fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale), the Irish Land League under Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt withdrew the local labour required to save the harvest on Lord Erne's estate. When Boycott tried to undermine the campaign, the League launched a campaign of isolation against him in the local community. Neighbours would not talk to him. Shops would not serve him. Local labourers refu...