Show capt boycott dead london june 22 capt boycott u ia dead ile he was about 55 years of age and became famous through being te th first man maa subject to boycott in ireland ile he was a land agent in 1831 1881 in the Con section 0 of f county mayo where he collected rents in 1880 mr parnell made a speech in which lie he urged the people of 0 ireland to abstain from agrarian crimes and to adopt instead a policy of sending harsh landlords agents and bailiffs to coventry tle the old term for boycotting evell events sj shaped themselves that capt boycott was the first man that the irish experimented on in this connection tion hence the now familiar word boycott |