'Leasehold estates and municipal enterprise. Landowners, local government and the development of Bournemouth, c1850 to 1914' in D Cannadine (ed), Patricians, Power and Politics

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Deals with the urban development of the coastal resort of Bournemouth - which hardly existed in 1838 - by three landowners [Sir George Tapps, Earl of Malmesbury and William Dean] owning c60% of the land, although interested more widely in the role of these landowners in the resort's economy, politics, society and public life and in particular their relationship with the local authority