'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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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