page_title: Burgh St Peter
section_title: Charles Boycott
hierarchical_section_title: Burgh St Peter / Charles Boycott
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-1897). Caption read "Boycott".
context_page_description: Burgh St Peter is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. The village is about 3 ¹⁄₂ miles northeast of Beccles in Suffolk. The village is about 50 feet above sea level, sharing the same slight hill with Wheatacre about ¹⁄₂ mile to the northwest.
  The River Waveney forms the parish boundary to the south, east and northeast of Burgh St Peter, and also forms the county boundary with Suffolk. Low-lying land beside the Waveney forms a series of levels in the parish, the largest of which is Burgh Marshes northeast of the village. The parish covers an area of 3 ¹⁄₄ square miles. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 274.
context_section_description: Charles Boycott,  grandson of Rev. Samuel Boycott, was born at Burgh St Peter in 1832 and is buried here. Whereas his father and grandfather were ordained into the Church of England, from 1849 Charles was a Captain in the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot serving in Ireland. In 1852 he left the Army and became a farmer outside Ballinrobe, County Mayo in Connacht. In 1873 he became a tenant and the land agent of the Earl of Erne, who was an absentee landlord.
  A poor harvest in 1880 led to a rent dispute between the Earl and his poorer tenants. Boycott tried to evict the defaulters but was resisted, and Boycott's workforce either deserted him or was forced out of his service by his opponents, leaving his crops unharvested. Despite help with his harvest by Orange Order volunteers from two counties in Ulster, and protection by the Royal Irish Constabulary and a detachment of the 19th Royal Hussars, Boycott found his position untenable and left Ireland under military escort. The incident led both to land reform in Ireland and to Boycott's name becoming a verb for "a systematic refusal of normal commercial or social relations".
  In 1886 Boycott became a land agent at Flixton in Suffolk. He died there in 1897 and was buried at Burgh St Peter, where his nephew Rev. Arthur St John Boycott conducted his funeral.
caption: Caricature of Charles Boycott by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair in 1881
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