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unusual facts about Absentee


Absentee

The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life.


Edward Hunloke

Hunloke was appointed deputy governor by absentee Governor Daniel Coxe after Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, was deposed and returned to England.

Fir Hill Manor

In 1994, it was the subject of a BBC Bristol documentary, which tells the story of former Newquay policeman Derek Fowkes as he searches for absentee landlord, John Paget Figg-Hoblyn.

José Ignacio García Hamilton

García Hamilton was the author of numerous books, including Hispano-American authoritarianism and unproductiveness (1990), and biographies of Juan Bautista Alberdi, Life of an absentee (1993); Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Rowdy Cuyano (1997), and José de San Martín, Don José (2000).

Ó Maolconaire

John Conroy, Welsh-born Protestant absentee landlord, Baronet and Comptroller to the Duchess of Kent of the British Royal Family, 1786-1854, reputed true father of Queen Victoria.

Richard Oastler

Richard later became steward for Thomas Thornhill, the absentee landlord of Fixby, a large estate near Huddersfield.

Terry Alts

The terror tactics of the Terry Alts were condemned by Tom Steele, but Daniel O'Connell laid the blame for agrarian agitation firmly at the feet of absentee landlords.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.


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