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...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...
...Having refused to be crowned king, Cromwell’s decision to anoint his eldest but naive son Richard over the younger, more capable Henry alienated both parliament and the army....
...Richard Ayoade steals a cameo scene as a biggish-shot director confused at the relationship before him....
...Greenhouses were a fixture not only of botanical gardens but of the grand estates of the nobility and landed gentry by the end of the 18th century....
...The oil canvas ended up in the collection of Richard Neave, governor of the Bank of England from 1783-85 and a trader in the West Indies. His descendants put it up for sale at Christie’s....
...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....
...Decoration was not the only reason why the landed gentry felt compelled to spend considerable sums on ultimately useless buildings....
...Another cover, “Ode to Billie Joe”, made Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 smash sparse and folkloric, Leventhal’s accompaniment ticking over with the merest twang of a groove....
...Maher; Imogen Cunningham Trust; Simon Gentry; John Paul Miller; Front Design, Alexander Schneider...
...He did this in the years when the party was completing its transition from putatively anti-business to establishing itself as the preferred political home of the internet gentry....
...It was aimed at the town’s gentry, had its own orchestra and charged a toll to keep the lower classes away....
...By Andrew Bounds More trouble in the shires for Conservative high command as one of its dwindling band of female MPs faces a “campaign to unseat her mounted by local gentry”, according to her allies....
...Richard Evans, a 33-year-old City of London trader, likes the paradox of wearing country attire in town....
...The days of it being an amateur game for the gentry are changing.”...
...“In the UK,” says Georgina Richards of Knight Frank, “we’ve even seen people commute backwards and forwards from abroad with just hand luggage, taking Friday or Monday off.”...
...Even its brand of capitalism, the free traders of the Anti-Corn Law League, can be seen as a middle and working class alliance against the gentry. It is a tamer place now....
...Christie and Britten were hardly obvious soul mates: the one an old-fashioned member of the landed gentry who had been awarded the Military Cross; the other a brilliant but thin-skinned young composer, widely...
...In fact, many of the most distinguished British radicals such as Thomas Paine, William Cobbett and Richard Cobden spent much of their energies attacking the state of their day....
...Paul + O Architects’ Wilderness project, a restrained, European-looking modernist house in Darsham, Suffolk, is one of the best, while the house of architect Richard Hawkes – an impeccably green, brick-vaulted...
...Richard Thaler: behaviour change and post-bureaucratic approaches to regulation Richard is one half of the duo who wrote Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, the influential book...
...What influence do the landed gentry have now? More than you might imagine....
...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?...
...Sir Richard Leese, the council leader, was a teacher....
...Whatever ants she had in her drainpipes didn’t affect Marshall’s perfect white-soul singing, however, which checks in somewhere between Bobbie Gentry with attention deficit disorder and a languorous Janis...
...Richard Tomkins is the FT’s chief feature writer …………………………………………………….....
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