Sheep into Goats
Gabriele Annan, 24 January 1980
The British Aristocracy
by Mark Bence-Jones and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd.
Constable, 259 pp., £6.95, October 1980,0 09 461780 5 Show More
by Mark Bence-Jones and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd.
Constable, 259 pp., £6.95, October 1980,
Barclay Fox’s Journal
edited by R.L. Brett.
Bell and Hyman, 426 pp., £8.95, July 1980,0 7135 1865 0 Show More
edited by R.L. Brett.
Bell and Hyman, 426 pp., £8.95, July 1980,
“... speaking of themselves as middle-class, as they frequently do these days.’ So Bence-Jones and Montgomery-Massingberd take the word ‘gentleman’ and make it mean ‘aristocratic’: their definitions define not so much what is as what they think ought to be. They begin by closing the gap between the terms ‘nobility’ and ‘gentry’: ‘The ... ”
