Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis over the last half century

over the last half century

Publisher: Western Isles Lieutenancy

Each chapter is so evocatively written that I came away from my reading with scents and sights still vivid in my mind

written from the perspective of those trying to build a viable future on the land

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Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis over the last half centuryCrofting was introduced to the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Central to its introduction was Malcolm McLaurin, a native of Ardchattan and a former student of medicine, who was appointed to Tiree as Chamberlain or factor by the 5th Duke of Argyll in 1801. This book is both a detailed biography of McLaurin and a close study of the background to, and the implementation of, what was no less than a tenurial