They came from a landowning family, the most hated class.

The Congreves are probably the longest lasting of the local landowning families.

They were at times one of the richest landowning families in England.

But first, he, like his father, must contend with four other landowning families whose lives have crisscrossed the block for three decades.

In 1857 and 1858 the Maronites revolted against the large landowning families.

His father was a professor, and his mother was the daughter of a landowning family.

He was born to a landowning family near Sligo.

Both his parents came from prosperous merchant and landowning families.

His family is one of the most powerful political and landowning families in Lebanon.

He came from a landowning family with patriotic traditions.