In the UK, both his father and his uncle, Sir Gore Ouseley, were well-connected diplomats and gentleman scholars.
Among the gentleman scholars, working for pay "was far too grubby a notion."
"And I like to think I'm a gentleman scholar."
In 1660, Penn arrived at Oxford and enrolled as a gentleman scholar with an assigned servant.
He was a gentleman scholar of Hebrew at the new Episcopal seminary uptown in Chelsea, and something of a crank.
Dean Pollak, a gentleman scholar with a ready smile and an open door, asked us to organize round-the-clock security patrols for the remainder of the school year.
He is especially drawn to the fact that complex adaptive systems are a branch of science still open to the gentleman scholar.
Uncle Farley, a "gentleman scholar" and aesthete, bought the house without realizing its magical properties.
With his death Yale and New Haven have lost one of the last of the old-time gentleman scholars who contributed so largely to their fame.
Built in the roguish American Modern style in 1948, the inn's books reveal the gentle soul of a gentleman scholar.