Hints and tips:
...The next you’re deep in a valley of citrus orchards and century-old manor houses, where the island’s landed gentry spend their summers....
...Lower down the social strata, you might have your barons, your gentry, your knights. They probably have a woman working for them. And she, again, probably has an assistant at that point....
...Educated at Eton, Christie seemed to personify the English gentry in an age when the species was widely reckoned to be extinct....
...In the 19th century, according to Vallance and Hopper, “heavily whiskered industrialists challenged the landed gentry for social ascendancy”....
...“The property market has changed dramatically during the last decade and the gentry saw that if they kept sitting still, watching the grandfather clock ticking and collecting rent, their empires would crumble...
...Using records from the Domesday Book of 1086 to the present, Gregory Clark of the University of California, Davis, found that the distribution of surnames linked to lowly jobs – Smith and Shepherd – and...
...Dr Nicholas Clark of the Britten-Pears Foundation has studied the correspondence in the archives....
...But with the credit crunch, job layoffs, downsizing and outsizing, is this really the time for an expenditure that might make one look like a member of the landed gentry?...
...Tim Clark, Robbie Williams’ manager, may well have “benefited . . . enormously from EMI over the years”, as someone close to the record company said last week on hearing Mr Clark’s criticism of the company...
...Land is especially easy to tax, so landed gentry will oppose democracy more violently than industrialists would....
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