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

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),...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

were members of the landed gentry. George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, and Cassandra was a member...

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)...

accorded to men of higher social rank, particularly members of the landed gentry above the rank of gentleman and below the rank of knight. Some sources...

in "a big rambling house" at Acton, West London. The Miers family, landed gentry originally of Aldingham, Cumbria (then in Lancashire), owned the Ynyspenllwch...

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

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...

Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea. The Chancellor family were Scottish landed gentry who had owned land at Quothquan since 1432. Chancellor was brought up...

novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence...

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

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...

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

warrior-class or martial caste community, with agrarian origins, forming the landed gentry of the region. They are the dominant land-owning, farming and banking...

paternal grandfather was Admiral Edward Stanley Adeane, from a family of landed gentry tracing their ancestry to a Simon Adeane who died in 1686; his maternal...

1813 novel. The film features five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions....

descent (the Kirkes being a junior branch of a family of Nottinghamshire landed gentry and descending also from the Gibson-Craig baronets) and her mother is...

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...