So, to update, each urinal has a name and a brief summary of the role the person played that earned them such a lofty position in the mens' urinals. They apparently read as follows:
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GEORGE GRANVILLE The Duke of Sutherland
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An English woollen mill owner / industrialist who acquired his title through marriage to the Duchess of Sutherland. His "modernization" plan for the Sutherland Estates resulted in the decimation of a centuries old Scottish crofting culture. The cornerstone of the plan was a ruthless eviction policy of local families who had traditionally enjoyed the protection of their Clan chief. The crofting community were callously, and at times, brutally forced out of their ancestral homes so that Granville could use their land to rear cheviot sheep for his and other woollen mills in the English Midlands.
COLONEL FELL
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In more recent times this man continued the Highland Clearances process on the island of Lismore through enforced evictions of the indigenous population.
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PATRICK SELLAR:
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A lowland Scot who is infamous as Granville's most zealous and cruel factor.
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He enforced the London government endorsed Highland Clearances on his fellow countrymen with a cold-hearted and ruthless efficiency that defies understanding. His deplorable actions during the Highlanders evictions and the torching of their homes caused the death of many of the uprooted old and infirm, due to their forced exposure to the harsh elements and to starvation.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/7uijku/great_way_to_honour_them/
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Added note: the pub's name "Lios Mor" is also "Lismore" (they're variants of each other as far as I can tell). Lismore is one of the islands of Scotland. I cannot find out exactly what happened there (probably the usual scratch and burn flavour of genocide favoured in the rest of the country,, but the population suffered a LOT.
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According to wikipedia:
"in 1798 there were 900 people living on the island and 1399 by 1841. Over the next 40 years the population more than halved to 621. By 1961 there were only 155 residents, and by the time of the 1991 census there were just 140."
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As of 2013 it looks like it hit 192.
If you want the short story: basically it took place during that long, drawn out period of history when England and Scotland weren't getting on so well-- particularly the highlanders, who still operated under the clan system and we're more invested in their Gaelic roots than the lowlanders. Due to various sabotages and circumstances, the clan system was beginning to collapse at this point.
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The clearances weren't actually a single event, they happened in various stages, where highlanders were forced from their land for various (usually unethical) reasons. In the case of George Granville Leveson-Gower, the reason was because he decided the land the Scots were living on was better used for cultivating sheep than people.
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So he essentially forced thousands of families to give up their farms, livelihoods, homes (he set them on fire, so it was pretty final), and iirc made them move to much smaller habitations on the coast.. Where they had to rely on kelp to survive.
The kelp thing wasn't great to begin with, but it went to hell before long too, but we won't get into that.
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All this was so he could raise sheep where the highlanders had once lived.
Patrick Sellar worked for George Granville (aka the Duke of Sutherland) and his charming wife. From what I remember, he had a fun habit of setting the land ablaze while the Scots were still on it, leaving them little time to evacuate.
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He's most famous for setting the roof of a farm on fire while one family's mother/mother-in-law was still inside. She died. He was put on trial, and in a shocking twist, was acquitted of the murder.
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He later settled down on the land he had burned the highlanders off of to raise some sheep.
I'm not fully clear on what Colonel Fell's role in the clearances was. There is, however, also a statue dedicated to the Duke of Sutherland, that is frequently defaced and has words such as "monster" spraypainted across its surface.
Well, it was commissioned and erected in 1834. The Duke died in 1833, and WHO exactly decided he needed a monument seems to have conflicting accounts. Some say it was ordered by many subscriptions sent in "from far and wide." Others say it was commissioned by the second Duke of Sutherland.
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Either way, it's caused nearly 2 centuries worth of mayhem just by existing-- people have attempted to use dynamite to remove the thing. Others insist it has historical value in that it opens way to a conversation about a dark time in Scotland's past. It sounds a bit like they'd be better off putting up a statue that hadn't been intended to Honor one of the faces of genocide to serve as a reminder, but that's really for Scotland to sort out.
The pub: Lios Mor
Names: Patrick Sellars, Colonel Fell, and George Granville Leveson-Gower
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GEORGE GRANVILLE The Duke of Sutherland
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An English woollen mill owner / industrialist who acquired his title through marriage to the Duchess of Sutherland. His "modernization" plan for the Sutherland Estates resulted in the decimation of a centuries old Scottish crofting culture. The cornerstone of the plan was a ruthless eviction policy of local families who had traditionally enjoyed the protection of their Clan chief. The crofting community were callously, and at times, brutally forced out of their ancestral homes so that Granville could use their land to rear cheviot sheep for his and other woollen mills in the English Midlands.
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In more recent times this man continued the Highland Clearances process on the island of Lismore through enforced evictions of the indigenous population.
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PATRICK SELLAR:
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A lowland Scot who is infamous as Granville's most zealous and cruel factor.
'
He enforced the London government endorsed Highland Clearances on his fellow countrymen with a cold-hearted and ruthless efficiency that defies understanding. His deplorable actions during the Highlanders evictions and the torching of their homes caused the death of many of the uprooted old and infirm, due to their forced exposure to the harsh elements and to starvation.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/7uijku/great_way_to_honour_them/
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According to wikipedia:
"in 1798 there were 900 people living on the island and 1399 by 1841. Over the next 40 years the population more than halved to 621. By 1961 there were only 155 residents, and by the time of the 1991 census there were just 140."
'
As of 2013 it looks like it hit 192.
'
The clearances weren't actually a single event, they happened in various stages, where highlanders were forced from their land for various (usually unethical) reasons. In the case of George Granville Leveson-Gower, the reason was because he decided the land the Scots were living on was better used for cultivating sheep than people.
'
So he essentially forced thousands of families to give up their farms, livelihoods, homes (he set them on fire, so it was pretty final), and iirc made them move to much smaller habitations on the coast.. Where they had to rely on kelp to survive.
'
All this was so he could raise sheep where the highlanders had once lived.
'
He's most famous for setting the roof of a farm on fire while one family's mother/mother-in-law was still inside. She died. He was put on trial, and in a shocking twist, was acquitted of the murder.
'
He later settled down on the land he had burned the highlanders off of to raise some sheep.
'
Either way, it's caused nearly 2 centuries worth of mayhem just by existing-- people have attempted to use dynamite to remove the thing. Others insist it has historical value in that it opens way to a conversation about a dark time in Scotland's past. It sounds a bit like they'd be better off putting up a statue that hadn't been intended to Honor one of the faces of genocide to serve as a reminder, but that's really for Scotland to sort out.