Businessmen and land purchase in late nineteenth century England
This paper compares the value of landed and non-landed wealth held by a group of nineteenth century British businessmen. Landed wealth is estimated from the data in John Bateman’s Great Landowners of Britain and Ireland. Non-landed wealth is documented in probate records. Quantitative evi...
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University of Oxford
1997
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| Summary: | This paper compares the value of landed and non-landed wealth held by a group of nineteenth century British businessmen. Landed wealth is estimated from the data in John Bateman’s Great Landowners of Britain and Ireland. Non-landed wealth is documented in probate records. Quantitative evidence shows that businessmen who owned land in the late nineteenth century did not retain a large proportion of their wealth in landed assets. In that sense they were rich because of the personal wealth and not because they were landowners. |
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