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...Parnell, who was among the pre-eminent figures in modern Irish nationalism, hailed from the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry....
...This week I pictured John Boehner, who fell victim to similar forces as McCarthy, swirling a glass of merlot on his Ohio porch and giving thanks to the day he retired....
...Previously, she fulfilled a similar role at John Galliano, where she was instrumental in shaping the designer’s early shows....
...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.”...
...The popular voice largely disappears, to be replaced by that of grand men such as Robert Hooke and John Locke, with very few women in sight....
...As they conceived the film they were inspired by William Friedkin’s 1971 classic The French Connection, the work of John Frankenheimer and Die Hard director John McTiernan....
...As owning a dovecote became more accessible, it also became less desirable to the gentry, and the practice declined....
...Taking Cromwell at his own word — a tendency Hutton detects among recent historians such as John Morrill, whose own Cromwell biography is eagerly awaited — fails to appreciate the “more pragmatic and more...
...A candid politician would give the inverse of John F Kennedy’s inaugural speech: a call to private not public endeavour....
...Like his artfully duplicitous characters, John Banville has an alter ego....
...Nobody knows what it will be like come Christmas,” said Hamish Elder, who co-runs the brewery and is a direct descendant of John Harvey, who founded it in 1790....
...John Singer Sargent, to whom Housego is related, depicted a Kashmiri shawl in several of his paintings....
...“Oh I bet you think you’re John Wayne . . . you’re classic in the wrong way,” she snarked over a lightly funked, disco-inspired venture into clubby country....
...He had a likeable nature and wit and was appreciated by the local gentry....
...Catesby, his disillusioned, leftwing spy, is a wonderful fictional creation and the books bear comparison with John le Carré....
...A well-executed version of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” revealed a taste for gothic-toned, literary songwriting: Cash is a published short-story writer herself....
...When John D Rockefeller tried to set up a national foundation in the early part of the 20th century, the US Congress turned him down....
...In Finding Your Feet Imelda Staunton plays Lady Sandra Abbott, newly elevated by virtue of an arriviste husband (John Sessions). How he became landed gentry, even new-rich, is a mystery....
...They’d prefer we didn’t think about how a third of the land in Britain is still owned by aristocrats and the traditional landed gentry. They’d prefer we didn’t think about them at all....
...More homes at propertylistings.ft.com Photographs: John Alexander/Robert HardingWorld/Getty Images; Alamy/Chris Pancewicz; Stephen Dorey/Alamy...
...His father was a landowning member of the gentry who left his estates in County Down to his firstborn son. Hans, the second born, had to make his own way in the world....
...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”....
...Business”,The Members, 1979 JC Carroll, a member of The Members who wrote the “white reggae” song, told me he had been inspired to create it while working as a clerk for Coutts, bankers to the Queen, the gentry...
...Councillor Bernard Gentry had a fight on his hands when he stepped into a Brixton church to convince a crowd of Londoners to vote for Britain to leave the EU....
...Decoration was not the only reason why the landed gentry felt compelled to spend considerable sums on ultimately useless buildings....
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