"Scottish Plans for the Annexation of Iceland 1785-1813" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Dec 2017 9:13 p.m. PST |
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries several high-ranking British gentlemen approached their government proposing that Britain take possession of
Iceland, at that time a dependency of Denmark. Among them were two Scotsmen the Honourable John Cochrane, a member of the Dundonald family, and the wellknown mineralogist Sir George Steuart Mackenzie of Coul. This paper discusses the
reasons for their interest in Iceland, the details of their proposals and the responses of the British government. At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain had a long-standing history of interest in Iceland. The fishing-banks off Iceland had first attracted English seamen at the
beginning of the fifteenth century. The Iceland cod fishery soon developed to the extent that it remained one of En~land'smajor fisheries until the 16508. In addition
to fishing, the English fishermen also traded extensively with the Icelanders. So extensive was the English presence during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that historians generally refer to this period in Icelandic history as 'the English Era'…"
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