| His portraits already included classical allusions which gained him many patrons among the grand tourist gentry. |
| The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or an uncle in the rectory as well. |
| Now, when I say fox hunting I mean the pack hounds and mounted gentry type of hunt. |
| Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility. |
| The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them. |
| Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed gentry. |
