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CROFTER ,.a See also:term used, more particularly in the See also:Highlands and islands of See also:Scotland, to designate a See also:tenant who rents and cultivates a small holding of See also:land or " See also:croft." This Old See also:English word, meaning originally an enclosed See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, seems to correspond to the Dutch kroft, a field on high ground or See also:downs. The ultimate origin is unknown. By the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland)See also:Act 1886, a crofter is defined as the tenant of a holding who resides on his holding,the See also:annual See also:rent of which does not exceed £30 in See also:money, and which is situated in a crofting See also:parish. The wholesale clearances of tenants from their crofts during the 19th See also:century, in violation of, as the tenants claimed, an implied See also:security of See also:tenure, has led in the past to much agitation on the See also:part of the crofters to secure See also:consideration of their grievances. They have been the subject of royal commissions and of considerable legislation, but the effect of the Crofters Act of 1886, with subsequent amending acts, has been to improve their See also:condition markedly, Ind much of the agitation has now died out.
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