Cubitt was the youngest son of a family of rural gentry in Norfolk, who joined the Royal Artillery in 1891.

The peasantry effectively disappeared, and a new class, the "rural gentry", emerged.

Undeniably, a large section of rural gentry and peasantry in Karnataka have belonged to the Kuruba community.

He claimed his family were 'rural gentry', meaning they were hereditary headmen.

And much the same was true of England's rural gentry.

The rural gentry are in cahoots with a German industrialist whose plans for tourist development are driving farmers like Minogue's brother off their land.

The educated urban upper and middle class, the rural gentry, traders, businessmen and artisans left for India soon after partition.

He wrote 13 original plays, most of them satirical miniatures dealing with the everyday life of a Russian rural gentry.

During the 18th and 19th centuries game preservation laws became ever more severe in favour of the rural gentry and their sport shooting rights.

They included many rural gentry as well as ordinary folk attached to the banner of the House of Orange.