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Definition of Landed gentry
1. Noun. The gentry who own land (considered as a class).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landed Gentry
Literary usage of Landed gentry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England?
Are you aware, when I present this illustrious baby to your notice, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Yorkshire, and Papplewick, Nottinghamshire. [Foss'g Lives of the Judges ; Hunter's
South Yorkshire, i. 367 ; Burke's landed gentry. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"('Victoria County Histories.') London : Constable, 1906. 2. History of the Landed
Gentry of Great Britain. By Sir Bernard Burke, ..."
4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"Rise of the middle classes; the backbone of the landed gentry the freeholding
... The backbone of this landed gentry was the freeholding knighthood, ..."
5. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... a definite commercial policy : revival of the wool trade: new era of prosperity
among landed gentry and occupiers of land : a time of adversity for ..."
6. The genealogist's guide to printed pedigrees: Being a General Search Through by George William Marshall (1879)
"Burke's landed gentry, 5. History of Hartle- Durham, iii. 339. ... Burke's Landed
Gentry, 3,4, 5. Harleian EDGAR. Account of the Surname of Edgar, ..."
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