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...Parnell, who was among the pre-eminent figures in modern Irish nationalism, hailed from the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry....
...The waitresses were dressed to resemble nannies, the kind who might once have instructed the captains of industry and landed gentry who dine here to finish their greens or else....
...Healey deploys less familiar accounts of the experience of famine, war and death to explain how the gentry and what he calls “the middling sort” were becoming “more engaged with law, politics and government...
...In 1905, Charles Hellen, originally the company’s Boston branch manager, was picked to run the new English division....
...This timeframe covers his early years as an obscure MP and member of the Cambridgeshire landed gentry, his conversion to Puritanism in 1638 and “godly” support for the republican cause in the early 1640s...
...Collins presented a country house from the point of view of its staff, who paint an unflattering portrait of the gentry, and he anticipated the troubled politics of colonial cultural artefacts, the question...
...Born into a Durham gentry family, John Lilburne was exposed to radical ideas while an apprentice in London, “the incubator and mainstay of the Leveller movement”....
...She is wonderfully horrible as the Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, part Elizabeth I, part Sybil Fawlty, with make-up as if by Charles Addams....
...Both Michael and his successor chose their wives at a “brideshow”, in which the daughters of provincial gentry were summoned to the Kremlin....
...Erected between 1664 and 1667 by the first Earl of Clarendon on land granted to him by Charles II, it cost the stratospheric price of £50,000 to build during one of the most hellish chapters in London’s...
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
...Aubrey was born in north Wiltshire in 1626, to a gentry family whose precarious finances collapsed after his father’s death....
...Yet of all those mentioned here, the Harleys best exemplify the middling gentry on whom the century’s conflict largely turned....
...Tony Laithwaite of Laithwaite’s Wine describes in Charles Vallance and David Hopper’s book The Branded Gentry how his wife saved the business in the early days: “She sorted me out....
...I was reminded of its importance reading an interview with electronics retailer Julian Richer in a new book about entrepreneurs, The Branded Gentry, by Charles Vallance and David Hopper....
...The Whigs were led by the patrician Charles, second Earl Grey. Both of them, like the new King, were in their sixties....
...“We asked people to guess the life expectancy of a labourer in Bethnal Green in the 1830s – 16 years – and compare that with a member of the landed gentry – 36 years....
...Did even Prince Charles start his polo career jumping around on an overgrown child’s toy?...
...This is true French gall, and not Charles de Gaulle!...
...I’m thinking about this as I read a review copy of Charles Vallance’s and David Hopper’s The Branded Gentry: How a New Era of Entrepreneurs Made Their Names (Elliott & Thompson)....
...Among the local gentry who attended him was Sir John Oglander, local landowner and member of parliament for Yarmouth. The weather was terrible....
...The estate is owned by the Ridley family, gentry and landowners for centuries and now headed by Matt Ridley, the science writer and ex-Northern Rock chairman....
...Her own great expectations centre on Charles Compeyson, a Willoughby/Wickham dasher who insinuates himself into her heart....
...The garden itself was sponsored by philanthropist Charles Clement Walker. In it, a Victorian tile-roofed timber shelter allows for picnics that laugh in the face of thunderstorms....
...Charles Saumarez Smith is secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts...
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