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    Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. He had a prominent and controversial role in the Highland clearances as factor...
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    For the Sellars, this initiated a process of upward mobility (Patrick Sellar was a lawyer and a graduate of Edinburgh University), which Sellar took to...
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  • (disambiguation) JoAnne Sellar (born 1963), English-American film producer Kenneth Sellar (1906 – 1989), English sportsman Patrick Sellar (1780 – 1851), factor...
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  • he wrote together with R. J. Yeatman. Sellar was born at Golspie in Sutherland, the descendant of Patrick Sellar who had taken a leading role in the Highland...
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    during clearances at Strathnaver, the factor to the Sutherland Estate, Patrick Sellar, was accused of culpable homicide and arson, after the mother-in-law...
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    with William Young and Patrick Sellar.: xvi–xxi  Young had a proven track record of agricultural improvement in Moray and Sellar was a lawyer educated...
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    Young Sellar FRSE LLD (22 February 1825 – 12 October 1890) was a Scottish classical scholar. Sellar was born at Morvich in Sutherland the son of Patrick Sellar...
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  • would not be unusual. Duties had to be performed in all weathers; when Patrick Sellar went to collect rents and issue eviction notices in the winter of 1813–1814...
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    those who were evicted.: 168–172  In 1814, one of the estate's factors, Patrick Sellar, was supervising clearances in Strathnaver when the roof timbers of...
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  • more land" – at the beginning of the 19th century is outlined next. Patrick Sellar, a factor of the Duke of Sutherland, is introduced. His systemised evictions...
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