Mammon's Daughter

De: Nigel Tranter

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Set in the 1930's, this is the tale of a modern Highland Clearance. Lord Holtby, a self-made Yorkshire woollen manufacturer and millionaire, bought a large West Highland estate from a descendant of the Stewarts of Monach. His first action was to replace the factor, Mark Stewart who was, in fact, a relaive of the previous owner. He owned Duich, which was originally a lesser part of the Monach Estate, and lived there. That was followed by replacement of several other long serving estate people by Holtby's southern preferences. Holtby wished to modernise his new estate by establishing a model farm and introducing industry in the shape of quarrying, a sawmill and a woollen mill. But his plan was to terminate the crofting rights and tenancies of everyone on the estate and employ them in his new projects. This was not at all well received by Stewart or the crofters and tenant farmers who wished to continue their traditional way of life, and was resisted. In the end, Holtby had his way, but he lost his daughter, Mary, to Mark Stewart.