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...Tech zillionaires, Hollywood moguls, blue bloods of the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront, double-barrelled British gentry, oligarchs, King Salman’s assorted cousins....
...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....
...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....
...But brothels and other attractions also proliferated and the gentry moved out, leaving the central gardens to ruin....
...For both, writes Robert Colls, sport was “an expression of liberty and belonging”. In fact, sport was central to Englishness....
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...Writing in The New York Times in 1968, the critic Robert Shelton settled on “swamp music”. “It was different,” Williams says. “It wasn’t folk music, it wasn’t country music....
...Donald Trump feared Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel would lead to the “end” of his presidency and worked on multiple fronts to derail his investigation, only to be thwarted in many cases...
...(Nikkei Asian Review) Land-owning gentry Half of England is owned by less than 1 per cent of its population....
...But she was, to the city of Nice, a “siren” who drew in the wealth of Europe, wrote the historian Robert Latouche....
...The paintings that adorned the walls were the hunting scenes one might expect to see in a landed gentry’s mansion in the English countryside....
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...A life-long networker and self-advancer, Sloane was helped initially by the Anglo-Irish chemist and fellow of the Royal Society, Robert Boyle....
...“While nobles around Vienna and Prague lived in palaces in the city, in Brandenberg and the eastern states, each village had its own gentry with their own small castle....
...Decoration was not the only reason why the landed gentry felt compelled to spend considerable sums on ultimately useless buildings....
...Among Mayfair’s new gentry, people with enough money and ambition to buy entire buildings and fill them with families and servants, are oligarchs from Russia and the Middle East....
...Popularly known as Little Venice, the section of Maida Vale where the Regent’s and Grand Union canals meet was much admired by the poets Lord Byron and Robert Browning....
...Ultimately, however, he seeks to defend a romantic High Tory view of empire — embodied here in John Low, father of Malcolm and Robert....
...Along the corridor in the peers’ dining room they are serving tea with hot-buttered crumpets to some of the hundreds of former ministers, party donors, lawyers, bishops and landed gentry that make up the...
...For my own biography of Robert Hooke I inevitably drew on Aubrey’s brief life....
...Robert Mitchum and James Stewart died on successive days in 1997. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died on the exact same day (July 30 2007)....
...Political differences among Scotland’s Highland gentry should come as no surprise....
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...Throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, Carlisle House saw the most infamous courtesans and the highest paid brothel-kept prostitutes mix as readily with the nobility and gentry of both sexes....
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