a person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding loyalty to the crown, marriage, and using English as their spoken language
In 1588 Edmund Spenser becomes an 'undertaker' in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
{i} one who prepares the dead for burial, funeral director, one who arranges funerals; one who undertakes; entrepreneur; Englishman who took over forfeited lands in Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries
An undertaker is a person whose job is to deal with the bodies of people who have died and to arrange funerals. someone whose job is to arrange funerals American Equivalent: funeral director