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WHO OWNED RUTLAND

IN 1873?

Rutland Entries in

Return of Owners of Land 1873

T H McK Clough

RLHRS Occasional Publication No 9

2010

RLHRS Occasional Publication No 9

First published in 2010 by

Rutland Local History & Record Society

Registered Charity No 700273

RutlandCountyMuseum

Catmose Street

Oakham

Rutland

LE15 6HW

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Contents

Page
List of Illustrations
List of Tables / 4
4
Acknowledgements / 4
1. / Introduction / 5
2. / The Return for Rutland / 9
Use of Land / 11
Size of Land Holdings / 11
Gross Estimated Rental Values / 17
3. / Owners of Land in Rutland and their Holdings / 20
Geographical Distribution / 20
The Clergy / 22
Other Occupations / 23
Out of County Owners / 24
4. / Lyddington: a parish assessment / 27
5. / The Chipping Campden Mystery / 32
6. / Conclusion / 36
Bibliography / 37
Transcript of the Return for Rutland / 38
Notes on the List of Owners / 49
Index of Addresses of Owners of Land / 57
Rutland / 57
Other Counties / 58

Illustrations

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1 / Title page of John Bateman’s Great Landowners (1883) / 6
2 / The Earl of Harborough’s mistress, Emma Sarah Love / 10
3 / Rutland’s four principal landowners / 12
4 / Bateman’s seven-tier system and his entries for the Marquess of Exeter and G H Finch / 16
5 / View of Lyddington showing the former Pied Calf / 27
6 / View of Lyddington showing the Exeter Arms / 28
7 / Isaac Averill of Broadway, Worcestershire / 35

Tables

1 / Rutland compared with totals for England / 5
2 / Categories of corporate ownership in the Rutland return / 7
3 / Summary of the Rutland return / 9
4 / Landowners holding over 9,000 acres / 12
5 / Landowners holding between 1,000 and 8,999 acres / 13
6 / Summary of land holdings, acreages and rental values / 14
7 / Comparison of Bateman’s 1883 data with those in the 1873 return / 15
8 / Rutland parishes showing lords of the manor, landowners and clergy / 18-19
9 / Counties in which named Rutland landowners were resident / 21
10 / Numbers of landowners shown as resident in each Rutland parish / 21
11 / Types of occupation identified in the return / 24
12 / Owners of over 100 acres with non-Rutland addresses in the return / 25
13 / Lyddington entries compared with directories and the 1871 Census / 30-31
14 / The members of the Chipping Campden mystery group / 34

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to many who have contributed in various ways to my work on the Return and my thanks are due to them all, notably: Cynthia Brown (the ‘missing’ Countess of Harborough); Kevin Cahill of (pointers to source material and general comments); Lorraine Cornwell, Rutland County Museum; Mick Heath, Gloucestershire Archives;Carol Jackson, Judith Ellis and fellow members of the Campden & District Historical & Archaeological Society (the Chipping Campden mystery); Elisabeth Jordan, Gretton Local History Society (Thomas Myers); Mairi Macdonald,Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon; Robert Ovens and Sheila Sleath (John Eagleton); Prof Alan Rogers (Browne’s Hospital); Dr Ian Ryder (Whissendine and the Sherard and Noel estates); Auriol Thomson (Rutland clergy and Glaston). Thanks are also due to the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Viscount & Viscountess Campden; Grimsthorpe & Drummond Castle Trust; Rutland County Museum. Professor John Beckett kindly read the draft and made valuable comments and suggestions.

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