The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could...
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Burke's Landed Gentry (originally titled Burke's Commoners) is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates...
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class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism),...
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The "gentry", or "landed gentry" in China was the elite who held privileged status through passing the Imperial exams, which made them eligible to hold...
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Polish landed gentry (Polish: ziemiaństwo, ziemianie, from ziemia, "land") was a social group or class of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates...
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In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner (typically a member of the gentry) without the owner...
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Look up landed gentry, county family, landed society, or squirearchy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Landed gentry usually refers to a largely historical...
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Burke's Peerage (redirect from Burke's Peerage & Gentry)
Burke's Peerage). Other books followed, including Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Colonial Gentry, and Burke's General Armory. In addition to its peerage...
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Silverman 2005 "Landed", a song by Drake from Dark Lane Demo Tapes Landed gentry, a largely historical privileged British social class Landed property, a...
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British nobility (section Landed gentry)
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping...
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the soil" in old Serer language were the ancient hereditary kings and landed gentry of the Serer people found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. The...
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Lausanne (/loʊˈzæn/ loh-ZAN, US also /loʊˈzɑːn/ loh-ZAHN, French: [lɔzan] ; Arpitan: Losena [lɔˈzəna] ) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking...
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on the country. The notion of landed gentry in the United Kingdom and Ireland varied over time. In Russian Empire landed nobles were called pomeshchiks...
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Bern (section Politicians and the landed gentry)
Bern (Swiss Standard German: [bɛrn] , German: [bɛʁn]), or Berne (French: [bɛʁn] ), is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal...
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List of family seats of English nobility (redirect from English Gentry Family Seats)
and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families...
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Squire (category Gentry)
a "squire", and still later, the term was applied to members of the landed gentry. In contemporary American usage, "squire" is the title given to justices...
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Waller-Bridge, family were soldiers and clergymen, who came to rank among the landed gentry of Cuckfield in Sussex. Her grandfather, Cyprian Waller-Bridge (1918-1960)...
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cover daily expenses or the luxuries typical to those from a lineage of landed gentry. The genteel poor may also describe those on fixed income such as pensioners...
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the most "noble" or "best" of society. Gentry Landed gentry (United Kingdom) Landed gentry in China Landed gentry in Poland Honorifics Nobility List of...
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shillings. These yeomen became a social stratum of commoners below the landed gentry, but above the husbandmen. This stratum later embodied the political...
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was "the designation of a class of landowners ranking next below the landed gentry". With the definite end of feudalism, this social class disappeared...
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List of family seats of Irish nobility (section Family seats of clans, baronets and gentry in Ireland)
the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English...
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London, the son of former cavalry officer Nigel Hadden-Paton, head of a landed gentry family of Rossway, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Sarah ('Bumble')...
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Border Brewery in Wrexham, North Wales. The Kingtons were a branch of a landed gentry family that married into the Scottish Clan Oliphant and produced the...
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amassed several large plantations, including Weston Manor, and became landed gentry in the colony. Families such as the Mathews from later Scotch-Irish...
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Gentleman (category Gentry)
or honorable man. Originally, gentleman was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition...
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The Kirke family is a junior branch of a family of Nottinghamshire landed gentry and descends also from the Gibson-Craig baronets. Kirke's maternal grandmother...
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Burke, B. (1965). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke's Peerage. p. 390. ISBN 978-0-85011-006-7. Retrieved 4 November...
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befitting to the traditional gentry. Nevertheless, as many people who would not be considered traditional landed gentry (yet) are granted arms, it can...
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houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the landed gentry who dominated rural Britain until the Reform Act 1832. Frequently, the...
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