For the British administrator in India, see George Rainy (administrator).
George Rainy (6 June 1790—9 June 1863) was a Scottish merchant, slave owner and land owner.[1]
In the early 1800s, Rainy became involved in sugar plantations in the Caribbean which were worked by African slaves in Demerara in Guiana. Due to extensive family connections he eventually became a full partner in Sandbach, Tinne & Company, a Scottish-run company which dealt in trade in the same field and was prominent in British Guiana, to the extent that the men who ran it were called the "Rothschilds of Demerara" on account of their wealth and influence.[2]
After the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire in the 1830s, Rainy became involved in the Highland Clearances. Using monies from the payout to former slave-owners following the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, he purchased the islands of Raasay, Rona and Fladda from Clan MacLeod in 1846: he removed from the land twelve townships of ninety-four Gaelic Highlander families to make way for sheep farming, causing mass depopulation and displacement on the islands.[3]
^Alston, David (2016). "Rainy, George (1790–1863), merchant, slave owner, and landowner". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/107415. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^"British Guiana 640 (Prospect)". University College London. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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