Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1823-1897) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a political campaign in 1880 gave the English language the verb to boycott, meaning 'to ostracise'. 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (to decompose (itself), to glitter), or a state of being (exist, live, soak, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ...

Charles Boycott was born in Norfolk in 1823. He came to Ireland to work as a land agent for Lord Erne, the local landowner in the Lough Mask area. As part of its campaign for the 3Fs (fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale) to protect tenants from exploitation, the Irish Land League under Michael Davitt withdrew the local labour required to save the harvest on Lord Erne's estate. When Boycott tried to undermine the campaign the League launched a campaign of isolation against him in the local community. Neighbours would not talk to him. Shops would not serve him. People in church would not talk to him or sit near him. His physical safety was also threatened. For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Lough Mask (Loch Measca in Irish) is a lake in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, located above Lough Corrib in the west of Ireland. ... A tenant (from the Latin tenere, to hold), in legal contexts, holds real property by some form of title from a landlord. ... The Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus enlisted the conscience of the propertied classes with the sentimental realism of La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher), exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1881, at the height of the Irish Land War Irish land League poster dating from the 1880s The Irish... Michael Davitt c. ...

The campaign against Boycott became a cause celebré in the British media, with newspapers sending correspondents to the west of Ireland to highlight what they viewed as the victimisation of a servant of a peer of the realm by Irish peasants. Fifty Orangemen from County Cavan, Ulster, travelled to Lord Erne's estate to save the harvest, while a regiment of the British Army was also sent to help. Over 1000 policemen were deployed to protect the harvesters. The whole episode cost the British government many thousands of pounds. The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organisation largely based in the Ulster region of Ireland and in western Scotland but which has a worldwide membership. ... Cavan (Irish: An Cabhán) is a county in the Republic of Ireland. ... Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) is one of the four provinces of Ireland. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was one of Irelands two police forces in the early twentieth century, alongside the Dublin Metropolitan Police. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ...

Boycott left Ireland soon after. His name however became immortalised by the creation of the verb to boycott, meaning 'to ostracise'.

Boycotting became a standard method of non-violent civic and political disobedience, practiced by Mahatma Gandhi, by anti-Nazis during World War II and during the civil rights campaigns in the United States and Northern Ireland in the 1960s. Mohandas (also called Mahatma or Bapu out of respect) Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધ&#2752, was the charismatic leader who brought the fight for Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... For an explanation of often confusing terms like Ulster, (Republic of) Ireland, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology). ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...