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Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...
The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.
[1] [2] In each episode, presenter Stacey Dooley stays for 72 hours at the house of an unusual family. [2] The first series was shown in 2019 and the second in 2021. [1] [2] In 2023, the series began following families in America, with an initial three-part run.
Burke's Landed Gentry (Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1921) Charles Kidd (Ed.), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 (149th Edition, Debrett's Ltd, London, 2014) Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736)
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
It is known colloquially as Burke's Landed Gentry. Burke was also the author of: The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Females, including Beauties of the Courts of George IV and William IV, 2 vols. 1833 [6] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England; 1838 (re-issued 1841 and 1844)
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 of some size. The work has been in existence from the first half of the 19th century, and was founded by John Burke .
Francis Fulford is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edgar Anthony Fulford and Joan Shirley, younger daughter of Rear-Admiral C. Maurice Blackman, DSO. [3] He is a great-great-grandson of Francis Fulford (1803–1868), Bishop of Montreal.