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Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...
In March 1974, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey stood up in the House of Commons to present his Budget. As well as doing away with the “largely avoidable” estate duty and ...
Reddit did not respond to SFGATE’s request for comment, but spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told the New York Times in June that, in Huffman’s reference to “landed gentry,” he was “talking ...
They were known as the landed gentry and held positions of increasing influence, such as magistrates, sheriffs and MPs. On his travels he explores the everyday lives of the gentry, including their ...
At the turn of the century, Argentine President Julio Roca, a Spanish-descended champion of the landed gentry, was visiting a jammed Italian-immigrant hostel. “What’s going to happen,” he ...