The first person to be boycotted was Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1880). He was a land agent who used to collect rent from poor Irish tenants. When he started harassing the tenants they chased away his servants, tore down his fences and cut off his mail and food supplies. When other agents were treated in the same way by the tenants it was said that they had been "boycotted". Today the word "boycott" is applied to any organised refusal to trade or associate with a country, business concern or an individual.
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| Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1880). |
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