Description:This newspaper extract illuminates widespread speculation in the 1880s and 1890s on the financial health of the House of Sutherland, battered by agricultural depression, the Crofters War, family disputes and poor financial speculation and investment. The Sutherland Fortune had taken a hit in these years, but it would not be until the 1920s that the real financial and territorial decline would set in. The estate management kept extensive scrap books of newspaper cuttings on all subjects related to or mentioning the Sutherland estate or family, as this example shows.
These pages have been researched and written by Dr. Annie Tindley, Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University.