British Fisheries Society
Other Business Names:
- British Society for Extending the Fisheries & Improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom of Great Britain
- Mylne, Robert
- Telford, Thomas
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, Scotland
- Lochbay, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
- Tobermory, Argyll & Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
- Ullapool, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
- Wick, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
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Agriculture & fishing
Fishing & fish farming
Notes:
Established 1786 largely by Highland landowners to build planned villages especially to accommodate workers displaced by the agricultural improvement of their estates and also to promote the Scottish herring industry as a source of employment for these workers. Known officially as the 'British Society for Extending the Fisheries & Improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom of Great Britain' and as the British Fisheries Society from 1857, it was a 'quasi government body incorporated as a joint stock company' by act of parliament. Provided housing and associated infrastructure for settlements at Tobermory (Mull), 1786, Lochbay (Skye), 1786, Ullapool, 1788, Pultneytown (Wick), 1803, and at other places in Scotland. On formation, the architect, Robert Mylne, 1733-1813, was consulting architect; he was then working at Inverary for the Duke of Argyll, Chairman of the Society. He was succeeded by Thomas Telford when the chairmanship passed to Sir Hugh Pulteney. Closed end of 19th century [2023]
Publications:
- British Fisheries Society, 1786-1893 by Dunlop, Jean M
- British Fisheries Society, 1786-1893 by Dunlop, Jean M
- British Fisheries Society. Its settlements and the Scottish fisheries, 1750-1850 by Hyde, E D
- Highland Planned Villages. The architecture of the British Fisheries Society by Maudlin, Daniel
- 'Planned villages of the British Fisheries Society' in J S Smith & D Stevenson (eds), Fermfolk and Fisherfolk. Rural life in Northern Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Monro, Jean
- Robert Mylne, Thomas Telford and the architecture of improvement. The planned villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1786-1817 by Maudlin, Daniel
- Settlements of the British Fisheries Society by Coull, James R
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- British Society for Extending the Fisheries & Improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom of Great Britain
- Mylne, Robert
- Telford, Thomas
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, Scotland
- Lochbay, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
- Tobermory, Argyll & Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
- Ullapool, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
- Wick, Highland, Highland, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
- Agriculture & fishing Fishing & fish farming
Notes:
Established 1786 largely by Highland landowners to build planned villages especially to accommodate workers displaced by the agricultural improvement of their estates and also to promote the Scottish herring industry as a source of employment for these workers. Known officially as the 'British Society for Extending the Fisheries & Improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom of Great Britain' and as the British Fisheries Society from 1857, it was a 'quasi government body incorporated as a joint stock company' by act of parliament. Provided housing and associated infrastructure for settlements at Tobermory (Mull), 1786, Lochbay (Skye), 1786, Ullapool, 1788, Pultneytown (Wick), 1803, and at other places in Scotland. On formation, the architect, Robert Mylne, 1733-1813, was consulting architect; he was then working at Inverary for the Duke of Argyll, Chairman of the Society. He was succeeded by Thomas Telford when the chairmanship passed to Sir Hugh Pulteney. Closed end of 19th century [2023]Publications:
- British Fisheries Society, 1786-1893 by Dunlop, Jean M
- British Fisheries Society, 1786-1893 by Dunlop, Jean M
- British Fisheries Society. Its settlements and the Scottish fisheries, 1750-1850 by Hyde, E D
- Highland Planned Villages. The architecture of the British Fisheries Society by Maudlin, Daniel
- 'Planned villages of the British Fisheries Society' in J S Smith & D Stevenson (eds), Fermfolk and Fisherfolk. Rural life in Northern Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Monro, Jean
- Robert Mylne, Thomas Telford and the architecture of improvement. The planned villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1786-1817 by Maudlin, Daniel
- Settlements of the British Fisheries Society by Coull, James R