Possible Clues:

• Mechanisation resister
• Funny lord with poor diet, one averse to new ways?
• Plan diluted by opponent of progress
• Legal lord tied in knots, one not keeping up with the times
• Destroyer of machines
• Worker who opposed mechanisation
• Dud tile is cracked, but one's not in favour of the new technology
• C19 hater of mechanisation
• Look out! Idle lout's finally decided to move. He destroyed plants
• Diluted by opposer of new technology