Charles Boycott

Charles Cunningham Boycott ( born March 12, 1832 in Burgh St Peter, Norfolk, England; † June 19, 1897 in Flixton, Suffolk, England ) was a British land agent in Ireland and captain of the British army. To him the concept of boycott boycott goes back and.

Boycott was hired in 1880 by John Crichton 3rd Earl of Erne as an estate manager on whose lands in County Mayo Achill Island. Boycott was repute as an evil slave-driver. Ostensibly, as a result of his office, but basically refused due to the characteristic of Ireland since the 17th century stark disparity between " Landlords " and tenants farmers of Lough Mask in the first year in office Boycotts to pay the rent. His behavior towards the tenants eventually led to that no longer work for him, buy from him and wanted to sell it to him. Boycott therefore threatened with court action and finally sat in November 1880, unemployed, loyal Protestant workers from Ulster one to bring in the harvest under the protection of about a thousand soldiers. He was also transported to another place under military protection. Then announced all the tenants and farm workers contracts. A decision by the Irish Land League, founded in 1879 endorsed them officially to avoid Boycott and not to make any business with him. Even the railroad refused at that time to transport his cattle. This decision also appears the first time the term boycott (engl: to boycott ) on.

In November 1880, the term was " Boycotting " ( boycott ) to this type of resistance from the London Times newspaper used.

The closed and unyielding attitude of the Irish Land League eventually forced Boycott to emigrate from Ireland.