marriage 358–9
inherits lands and title 360
War service 363–5
agrees to sale of part of the estate 368–9
gives estates to the National Trust 371–6, 378–9
becomes a teacher in Wandsworth 382
death of 383
Acland, Robert 376, 378, 380
Acland, Sir Thomas (1784–1871) 352–4, 357, 364
Acland, Sir Thomas (d.1898) 352, 354, 357
Acland, William (d.1945) 378
Act of Supremacy (1534) 51–2
Addison, Joseph 104, 205
Ady, Edward 165–7
Agincourt (1415) 10, 26
Airedale 13
Allerford, Somerset 376
Alnwick 346
Alvanley, Lord 290
American War of Independence 269–72
Amlwch, Anglesey 311, 312
Anamobu (Ghana) 228, 229
Anglesey 315, 325
Anglesey, Henry 302, 306
Anglesey, Lord 295
Annesley, Lady Catherine 290
Antigua 245–7, 248
Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight 122
Apsley, Lord 291
Arcadia (Philip Sidney) 71
Arlington, Earl of 184
Arundel Castle 346
Siege of (1644) 161
Ashepoo, South Carolina 270
Ashley-Cooper, Antony 250
Astley, Sir Jacob 192–3
Audley, 25th Lord 96
Audley, Eleanour 75
Audley, Lucy Mervyn 74–5, 77, 80, 81–2, 83, 87, 87–9, 89–90, 97
Audley, Sir Thomas 55–6
Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales 262–6
Austen, Jane 290
Bacon, Francis 28–9
Badminton 346
Bagehot, Walter 355
Barbados 207–8, 215, 216–23, 230, 233, 235–8
Barfleur 125
Bargrave, Elizabeth Peyton 144
Bargrave family 144, 145, 161, 166
Bargrave, Robert 144, 145, 146
Baring’s Bank 340
Barnes, Sir Edward 290, 294, 297–8, 303
Baron Hill, Anglesey 337
Barrow, Kate Oxinden 143
Barrow, Thomas 143, 146, 164
Baskerville, Thomas 140
Bayly, Sir Nicholas 312, 313, 315
Beaton, Cecil 374
Beaufort, Duchess of 288
Beck, Sir Justus 225
Beckford family 96
Bedford, Duke of (Henry V’s brother) 10
Bee, Christopher 12
Bee Hotel, Abergele (North Wales) 340
Bell Inn, Beaconsfield 76–7, 83–4
Belmont, South Carolina 269
Belvoir 346
Benjamin, Walter 414
Benyon, Charles 231
Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire 394
Bernard Matthews company 175
Bifrons, Kent 144, 145, 146, 161
Bingley, Edward 314
Bladwell, Giles 199
Blenheim, Oxfordshire 346
Blickling Hall, Norfolk 174, 197–8
Bloomfield, Lord and Lady 323
Boar’s Head, Southwark (London) xv
Boddicott, Richard 247
Bodelwyddan Castle, North Wales 317, 318, 319
Boleyn, Anne 50, 53, 55, 56, 58
Bordesley Abbe, Worcestershire 63
Bosworth Field (1485) 41
Boys, Sir Edward 160
Bradford, Yorkshire 36
Brading, Isle of Wight 111, 112, 135–6
Bradley, Edward (head coachman) 333
Bradley, Fred 340
Brafferton, Yorkshire 9–13, 14
Brathwait, Richard xi
Brathwaite, John 235–7
Bristol, Marquess of 345
Britain’s Glory 105
British Library 142
Broadclyst, Devon 353, 376
Broome Park, Kent 147–8, 161, 164
Broomhead, P.W. 378–9
Brown, Capability 239
Browne, Thomas 179, 194
Browne, Sir Thomas 411
Browning, Robert 396
Brussels 287–302, 304
Bryan, Sir Francis 56
Buckethole, Somerset 368
Buckinghamshire, Earl of 174
Bude, Cornwall 351
Bulkeley, Sir Richard Williams 337
Burke, Sir Bernard 337–8
Burke, Edmund 208, 411
Burrows, Thomas 196
Butler, Samuel 195–6
Byron, Lord 292
Cadbury’s 405
Caen 125, 126
Camden, Marquess of 346–7
Cameron, David 417
Can You Forgive Her? (Anthony Trollope) 323
Capel, Arthur 286
Capel, Lady Caroline Paget 285, 315
marriage and children 286, 303
social life in Brussels 287–90
her daughters’ amorous flirtations 290–8, 299–300, 303–5
her husband’s duel with Trip 298–9
and Battle of Waterloo 300–3
learns of her husband’s gambling 304
moves to Switzerland 305
death and final years 307–8
Capel family 279–80, 285
Capel, Georgy 288, 289, 299, 300
Capel, Harriet (d.1819)
flirtations 288
affair with Ernst Trip 290–300, 302, 303, 304–5
and Battle of Waterloo 300–3
learns of Trip’s suicide 306
marriage and death 306–7
Capel, Janey 303
Capel, John (1770–1819) 285–7, 295, 297, 299, 300, 303, 304
Capel, Muzzy 290, 291–2, 292, 294, 299, 300
Capel, Priscilla Elizabeth 303
Carnarvon, Earl of 345
Carpenter, John 165–6
Carter, Edward 218
Catherine of Aragon 50, 53, 57
Catherine of Valois 41
Caus castle, Shropshire 79, 87, 90
Cawston Heath, Norfolk 104, 173, 175, 179, 196
Cecil family 101
Chaloner, Robert 35
Charles I 134, 152, 164, 173, 214
Charles II 174
Charles Town, South Carolina 249, 253, 257, 260, 263, 269
Charlton, Marie (lady’s maid) 333
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 15, 346
Cheke family 120, 122
Cheke, Thomas 120
Chester and North Wales Bank 316
Chesterfield, Lord xix, 292
Choiseul, Le Comte Alfred de 323
Cholmondeley, Marquess of 345
Churchill, Winston 363, 364
City of London 52, 225–7, 235, 240
Civil War 102–3, 117, 128–9, 131, 134–5, 152–4, 159, 161, 162, 173, 182, 184, 214
Clancarty, Lord 289
Clarke, Amelia (laundry maid) 333
Clarke, Sir John 58–9
Cleaver, Mark 389
Clegg, Nick 417
Clifford, Anna 407
Clifford, David 407
Clifford, Elizabeth 27
Clifford family 17, 20, 36
Clifford of Frampton family 391, 393–7, 407–9
Clifford, George 231–2
Clifford, Henriette 395
Clifford, Henry Francis (d.1917) 395–7, 404
Clifford, Hilda 395, 396
Clifford, James 394
Clifford, Janie 389–90
Clifford, Jessie 407
Clifford, Lord (d.1455) 15
Clifford, Lord (d.1461) 18
Clifford, Peter 389, 391, 394, 406, 407
Clifford, Rollo 394
description and character 387–8
at the shoot 388–93, 400–2
military career 388, 389, 397–8
love of hunting 398–400
sense of community and continuity 402–9
Clifford, Rosamund 394
Clifford, Sarah 407
Clifford, Walter 394
Clutterbuck family 395, 404
Clynnog, Wales 354
Cochwillan Old Hall, Tal y Bont (Wales) 348
Codrington, Christopher 246
Cole, William 64
Collinson, Patrick 61
Common Wealth movement 367, 370, 371, 372, 374, 375, 376–7
Compton Basset, Wiltshire 90, 96
the Concern 228–33
Cooke, Sir William 192
Cope, Anthony 55
copper mining 312–15
Corpus Christi College, Oxford 71, 141
Corrupt Practices Act (1883) 324
Corsham, Wiltshire 79
Corsley, Wiltshire 94
Coughton Court, Warwickshire 47–9, 56, 64, 66–8
Court of Arches 82, 84
Craven County, South Carolina 249
Cripps, Sir Stafford 364
Cromwell, Thomas 51, 52, 53, 55, 56–7, 59, 60–1, 63
Crookenden, Richard 230
Crouch, Giles 144
Crown inn, Cornhill (London) 178
Croxteth Hall, Lancashire 326
Culling, Ellen 157
Culling family 157–8
Culling, Goodman James 154
Curtis, John 110, 111
Curzon, Lord 345
Dallison, Elizabeth 156, 157
Danvers, Charles 79
Danvers, Henry 79
Davies, Elizabeth (laundry maid) 333
Dawes, John 313
Deal, John 111
death duties 346–7, 367–8
Defoe, Daniel 223, 224, 227
Dene, Kent 140, 143, 149–50, 151
Denne Hill, Kent 163
Denne, Thomas Snr 163
Denne, Tom Jnr 162–3
Denne, Vincent 162–3
Denny convent, Cambridgeshire 63–4
Dennys, Sir Edward 125
Devon Record Office 359, 370, 382
Dickenson, Oliver 36
Digby, Freddy Wingfield 347
Dillington, Sir Robert 125
Dingley, Sir Thomas 61, 62
Dinorben, Dowager Lady Gertrude 317, 320–1
Dinwiddie, Robert 221, 222–3
Disraeli, Mary Anne 323
Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–9) 63
Dixwell, Sir Basil 147–9, 161
Dixwell family 164, 165, 166
Dixwell, Mark 161
Donne, John 139
Douglas, Keith 401
dowry system 15, 22–4, 74, 78, 80, 90, 92, 95
Dudley, Edmund 29, 36
duels 173, 193–7
Dunning, John 232–3
East India Company 169, 227
Edensor manor, Derbyshire 15
Edward IV (Earl of March) 17–18, 21
Edward and Mary (ship) 215
Edward VI 72
Edward VII 337
Elizabeth I 65, 66–7, 77, 83, 122, 141, 394
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 373
Elsing Hall, Norfolk 179
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire 63
Empson, Sir Richard 28–31, 36
The English Gentleman (Richard Brathwait) xi
The English Gentlewoman (Richard
Brathwait) xi
Enniskillen, Lady 285
Erskine, Lady 285
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke) 104, 252–3
Essex, 6th Earl of 307–8
Essex, Earl of (b.1757) 285
Essex, Sir William 59–60, 61
Euston, Thetford (Norfolk) 184, 346
Evans, Laura (head housemaid) 333
Falcon Hotel, Bude (Cornwall) 368
Fastolf, Sir John xv
Faure, Janette (needlewoman) 333
Fayweather, Fanny 248, 249
Ferdinando di Borbone-Due Sicilie, Carlo, Principe di Capua 317
Ferguson, Sir Ronald Craufurd 288, 290
Fetherstonhaugh, Dickon 341
Finance Act (1919) 346
Fisher, Charles 188
Fisher, John, Archbishop of Rochester 54, 56, 62, 63
‘Floating Factory’ 228
Foljambe family 17
Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire 73, 74, 86, 90, 96
Forbes, Bryan 416 ‘Forward March’ movement 366
The Forward March (Richard Acland) 369
Frampton Country Fair 397–8, 403
Frampton Court, Gloucestershire 394–5, 404, 406–7
Frances, Lady Gardner (d.1847) 317
Franklin, Alan 402
Frederick, Prince of Wales 262
Freeman, George 182
Fretherne, Gloucestershire 394
Frigate Lascelles (ship) 215
Fuller, Thomas xvi, 47
Galloway, Lady 285
Garden Hill, South Carolina 249, 252
Garthe, John 15
Garwinton, Kent 146
Gawdy, Sir Bassingbourne 105, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 189, 191, 198, 201
Gawdy family 103, 180, 181–2, 399
Gawdy, Framlingham 183
Gawdy, Sir John 182–4, 189, 198
Gawdy, Sir William 182
Gawdy, William 182
genealogies xviii, 101–2
The Gentleman’s Magazine 260–1
gentry
records of ix–x
affinity with the land x–xii, 115–16, 119, 122–3, 252–3, 408, 413, 415
definitions xiii–xv
characteristics xiv–xx, 411–12
feudal 4–5, 37
Tudor 41–3
retrospection and modernity 101–2
Civil War and ideology 102–4
Whigs and Tories 104, 206
hunting and the squire’s province 105–6
nature of gentility 158
stereotype 205–6
sugar and slavery 206–9
yeoman and small gentry failures 206
feminization of 209–10, 245
commerce and trade 215, 230–1, 234–5, 412
trust and neighbourliness 230–1
transitional language concerning 234–5
exploitation of people 254–7
Victorian 279–82, 318–19
erosion of 345–8
continuity and balance 408–9
virtues and ideals 412–14
relationship to power 414–15
futile and irrelevant 416
community and competition 417–18
politics and ideology 417
George II 262
George III 262
Gibson, Lord 383
Gilnot, Goodwife 146–7
Gladstone, Mrs Catherine 323
Gladstone, William 324, 325, 354
Glan y Wern estate, North Wales 340
Glorious Revolution (1688) 103–4
Godwin, Roger 405–6
Goldsborough Hall 38
Goldsmith, Oliver 291
Goode, Jessie (lady’s maid) 333
Goodhart-Rendel, H.S. 328
Goodwood, Sussex 346
Grafton, Duke of 136
Granville, Countess 303
Grassington, Upper Wharfedale 13, 17, 21, 27, 36
Graves, Lady 285
Great Witchingham, Norfolk 175, 176–8, 180, 185, 191, 199, 200
Greenfield Hall, North Wales 315
Gresham, Sir Richard 73
Greville, Charlotte 289
Greville, Mrs Ronnie 373–4
Grosvenor, Lord Richard 323–4, 325
Guardian newspaper 372, 373
Guild of the Holy Cross, Stratford 48
Guinea (plantation in Barbados) 218
Gunpowder Treason (1605) 65
Gunter, Geoffrey 59
Guy, John 62
Gyll, Thomas 239
Hall, Edward 20
Hall, Thomas 231, 232
Hambrook, William (footman) 333
Hamilton, George 229, 232
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey 50, 51, 328
Hampton, South Carolina 269, 271–3
Harewood House, Yorkshire 239, 240
Harrington, James xi
Hart-Davis, Duff 389, 391
Haseley 56
Hawkins, Jack 416
Hayward family 75
Heal, Felicity xv
Helperby Moor 12
Helperby, Yorkshire 11
Henry II 394
Henry IV 10
Henry V 10, 26, 41
Henry VI 4, 17
Henry VII 28, 34–5, 41, 49
Henry VIII 41, 49, 50, 53, 55, 72, 73
Hewlett, Rose 402–3
Hexham, Northumberland 11
Hickes, Geoffrey xviii, xx, 205, 412
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 76
Hindon, Somerset 368
Hinton, Dowager the Lady 323
History of the World (Walter Raleigh) 135
Hitler, Adolf 374
Hobart, Elizabeth Maynard 174, 196
Hobart family 103, 173–4
Hobart, Sir Henry 104
description and character 173, 174–5, 185
marriage 181
loses his Parliamentary seat 192–3
challenges Oliver le Neve to a duel 193–4
duel and death 196–8
Hobart, John 146, 164, 196
Hodges, Sir Joseph 224
Hodgson, Agatha 340
Hodgson, James Stewart 340
Holinshed, Raphael 18
Holmes, Clive xv
Holnicote, Somerset 352, 366, 367, 371, 376, 382
Holy Land 48–9
Hooper, Thomas 12
Hopper, Thomas 317
Horatian vision 153–4, 157, 208–9, 237, 258
Horry, Daniel (d.1785) 269, 271, 273
Horry, Harriott Pickney 262, 264–5, 269, 271
Horse’s Head, Cheapside 58–9, 60
Hospital of St John, London 52
Hotham, Lord 291
Houghton, Norfolk 234
Hudibras (Samuel Butler) 195–6
Hughes, Edward (d.1815) 312–13, 315, 316
Hughes family 280, 281–2, 316
Hughes, Florentia Liddell (d.1911) 321–2, 323, 327, 335
Hughes, Hugh 312, 338
Hughes, Colonel Hugh (d.1940) 340–1
Hughes, Hugh Robert (1827–1911) description and character 316–17, 321, 337