'Aristocrats and entrepreneurs in the Shropshire mining industry, 1748-1803' in C W Chalklin & J R Wordie (eds), Town and Countryside. The English landowner in the national economy. 1660-1860

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Author(s) Wordie, J Ross
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1989
Pages pp191-212
Publisher Unwin Hyman
Place Published London

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City London
County Greater London
Country England
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Attempts to throw light on the nature of the relationship of aristocratic landowners with mineral bearing land and local entrepreneurs who were in the late 18th century at the forefront of British industrial development. Uses as a case study the Leveson Gower family, who were variously Dukes of Sutherland, Marquesses of Stafford and Earls Granville, and entrepreneurial families such as the Darbys, the Reynolds, the Barbours, the Gilberts and the Bishtons