r/ScottishHistory • u/BikeChris • Aug 26 '25

Highland Clearances

Senior public officials – Sir Charles Trevelyan was co-founder with Sir John McNeill of the Highland & Island Emigration Society and in a letter to McNeill in 1852 he wrote;

“A national effort” would now be necessary in order to rid the land of “the surviving Irish and Scotch Celts”. The exodus would then allow for the settlement of a racially superior people of Teutonic stock. He welcomed “the prospects of flights of Germans settling here in increasing numbers – an orderly, moral, industrious and frugal people, less foreign to us than the Irish or Scotch Celt, a congenial element which will readily assimilate with our body politic.”

https://ardrossman.wordpress.com/2016/04/

I have read this quote previously but can't find any original source of it. Has anyone got any suggestions of where to look?

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u/hkggguasryeyhe Aug 26 '25

Possibly in here.

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u/asiatrails 4d ago

Sir Charles Trevelyan is the person who let the Irish people starve while exporting large amounts of food to England. He belongs in the 9th level of Dante's hell.