The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could...

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...

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...

class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism),...

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...

Polish landed gentry (Polish: ziemiaństwo, ziemianie, from ziemia, "land") was a social group or class of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates...

Silverman 2005 "Landed", a song by Drake from Dark Lane Demo Tapes Landed gentry, a largely historical privileged British social class Landed property, a...

Look up landed gentry, county family, landed society, or squirearchy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Landed gentry usually refers to a largely historical...

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...

lords. The rest of the nobility form part of the landed gentry (abbreviated "gentry"). The term landed gentry, although originally used to mean nobility, came...

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...

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...

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...

and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families...

Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry Families with Extended Lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved...

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...

Bern (Swiss Standard German: [bɛrn] ), or Berne (French: [bɛʁn] ), is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city". With a population...

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...

notes that "Few members of the American gentry were able to live idly off the rents of tenants as the English landed aristocracy did." Some landowners, especially...

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...

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)...

the most "noble" or "best" of society. Gentry Landed gentry (United Kingdom) Landed gentry in China Landed gentry in Poland Honorifics Nobility List of...

shillings. These yeomen became a social stratum of commoners below the landed gentry, but above the husbandmen. This stratum later embodied the political...

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...

was "the designation of a class of landowners ranking next below the landed gentry". With the definite end of feudalism, this social class disappeared...

Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn; the Norman-Butler family were landed gentry. Gordon studied at RADA in the same year as Jane Horrocks, where the...

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...

royal charters, not all landed gentry had hereditary noble status. The term ziemiaństwo was also applied to wealthier landed peasants.[citation needed]...

London, the son of former cavalry officer Nigel Hadden-Paton, head of a landed gentry family of Rossway, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Sarah ('Bumble')...

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...