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...Parnell, who was among the pre-eminent figures in modern Irish nationalism, hailed from the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry....
...This was the exclusive yet mobile “gentry” class, whose members often claimed descent from the aristocracy, with some marrying back up into it, while others became associated with the professions or with...
...For Chris Mullin, pottering in a much-loved garden leaves room for an agreeable merry-go-round of literary festivals and elegant gatherings hosted by the landed gentry....
...They have scattered as far as Siberia and Bolivia, arriving on Peipus’ western side when it was under Swedish rule, along with German gentry....
...Tech zillionaires, Hollywood moguls, blue bloods of the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront, double-barrelled British gentry, oligarchs, King Salman’s assorted cousins....
...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....
...think much of democracy) or perhaps in the newly independent American Republic after the Revolutionary War in which the franchise was purposely skewed in favour of small class of landed and commercial gentry...
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...village of Stondon Massey in Essex, where he continued to write for the Anglican church but, as a committed Catholic, also composed music for private, or clandestine, performances by the local Catholic gentry...
...Born into the Kent gentry (his father was a judge, eventually a Lord), Tomlin was sent to Harrow, where he dazzled with his promise....
...He also likened some longstanding moderators to “landed gentry”....
...Renaissance lairds, Scotland’s landed gentry, often considered fortification of their residences mainly a matter of pride or aesthetics....
...Born into a family of minor gentry in about 1527 on the site of Hardwick Old Hall, Elizabeth Hardwick (Bess) accumulated wealth and status to rise to the top of Elizabethan society....
...Coflein, the database for the National Monuments Record of Wales, describes it as “an ambitious gentry house of renaissance character”....
...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
...close to an anonymous 17th-century view of Seville and you find yourself in the waterfront neighbourhood of Triana, humming with oarsmen, hawkers and porters of assorted skin tones, interspersed with white gentry...
...The “big houses” of the largely Protestant Anglo-Irish landed gentry gave employment to local people and were frequently of architectural significance....
...Now dealers are able to price it as a block,” said John Gentry, head of the corporate fixed-income group at Federated Hermes. “This has helped us find bonds that we could not find before.”...
...Neilson does not have Gentry’s storytelling skills (few do), but she is a charismatic presence at the microphone, with knockout singing and a sharp ear for phrasemaking....
...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...
...The story revolves around a CIA operative, Court Gentry (Gosling) code-named Sierra Six, who is recruited from federal prison by Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) to work on deadly top-secret missions....
...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....
...As owning a dovecote became more accessible, it also became less desirable to the gentry, and the practice declined....
...Most who go to such utopias expect to be wined, dined and treated like gentry by (someone from) the local economy. At some point you simply have to make provision for the people doing the work....
...Through the centuries, thanks to the influential lobbying of the nobility and the gentry, land taxes had gradually been whittled away....
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