The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott ...

The word “boycott” itself originated during the 1880 Irish Land Wars, and referred to the resistance to English land agent and former army officer Captain Charles Boycott. Tenants of the ...

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Formerly an obscure officer in the British army, Captain Boycott was the land agent for an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, a position which afforded him a lush life on an estate outside the town of ...

English land agent Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott unfairly raised rents, inhumanely evicting his tenants in Ireland. The community joined together and refused to pay or work for him, eventually ...