The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could...
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Burke's Landed Gentry (originally titled Burke's Commoners) is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates...
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class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism),...
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The "gentry", or "landed gentry" in China was the elite who held privileged status through passing the Imperial exams, which made them eligible to hold...
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Polish landed gentry (Polish: ziemiaĆstwo, ziemianie, from ziemia, "land") was a social group or class of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates...
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In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner (typically a member of the gentry) without the owner...
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Look up landed gentry, county family, landed society, or squirearchy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Landed gentry usually refers to a largely historical...
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Burke's Peerage (redirect from Burke's Peerage & Gentry)
Burke's Peerage). Other books followed, including Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Colonial Gentry, and Burke's General Armory. In addition to its peerage...
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Silverman 2005 "Landed", a song by Drake from Dark Lane Demo Tapes Landed gentry, a largely historical privileged British social class Landed property, a...
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British nobility (section Landed gentry)
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping...
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