John Gordon 4th of Cluny

Other

Canada

Notes

Involved in the Highland clearances including the forced emigration of three thousand of his former tenants to Canada in the 1850s.

Sources

James A. Stewart, 'The Jaws of Sheep: The 1851 Hebridean Clearances of Gordon of Cluny', Procedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. 18/19, 1998/1999, pp. 205-226.