landed gentry• The Kingappointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentryconsidered to be their prerogative.• It was built originally by one of the old woolmerchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.• But it certainly suited the dominantlanded gentry to interpret him in that way.• Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.• There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonialadministrators rather than landed gentry.• Parliamentremaineddominated by the aristocracy and by the landed gentry.• the landed gentry• The landed gentryplanted for their grandchildrenavenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
Origingentry
(1300-1400)Old Frenchgenterise, gentelise, from gentil; → GENTLE