Tag Archives: land tenure

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1998.197.1

Photocopied journal of Lord Lorne dated 23-28/4/1884.

The journal of Lord Lorne written during a visit to Tiree 23-28/4/1884 and in the form of a letter to the 8th Duke of Argyll.

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1998.182.9.1

Photocopied page of two newspaper cuttings about the Duke of Argyll from an unknown publication dated around the 1960s.

(1) Article about the retiral of the chamberlain of Argyll Estates, Major Ian MacLennan, who plans to retire to his 300-acre farm on Tiree, where he was formerly the factor, (2) a legal case regarding the Duchess of Argyll.

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2003.60.9

Hardback book `Argyll Estate Instructions 1771-1805` edited by Eric Cregeen.

Instructions by the 5th Duke of Argyll to his chamberlains of Mull and Morevern and of Tiree between 1771 and 1805.

 

Duplicate of 2000.122.5  See further details under that entry.

1998.170.14

Photocopied petition dated 27/7/1893 to the Chairman of Argyll County Council from a group of Tiree cottars.

Petition dated 27/7/1893 to the Chairman of Argyll County Council from a group of cottars from Scarinish, Heanish and Baugh, all wanting to rent land under the Small Holdings Scotland Act of 1892.

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