Estate Finances and Administration

Carol Beardmore ()
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Carol Beardmore: University of Leicester

Chapter Chapter 2 in Financing the Landed Estate, 2019, pp 25-60 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The landed estate at the outset of the nineteenth century underpinned the aristocratic classes. Yet its administration has attracted relatively little research. In a period when absenteeism was rising through a greater call on the time of the landed elite for political service, there was a need for skilful men to administer estates. This chapter explores the expanding role and scope of the land agent, investigates the role of accounts in defining the financial health of the estate and examines rising indebtedness of the landowner himself and the methods used by the land agent to raise large mortgages and loans.

Keywords: Accounts; Indebtedness; Mortgages; Loans; Land agent; Fraud; Rent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14552-1_2

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