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Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
a member of the lowest order of the British nobility. The term “Baron” is not used as a form of address in Britain, barons usually being referred to as “Lord.”.
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In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper 'baron' Lord Beaverbrook out of it.
‘There is one more thing, 'baron' ,’ the Advisor continued.
Happy is the press 'baron' whose political and business interests work hand in hand - or fist in glove.
a press 'baron'
But as long as I was still a baroness and he a 'baron' , we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect.
But in February 2004, newspaper 'baron' Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping.
Her parents were a 'baron' and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.
Jay Gould, the railroad 'baron' , ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler.
Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a 'baron' , a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf.
In pretending to be a 'baron' and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society.
The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a 'baron' and a maharaja - who provide them.
At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a 'baron' or a duke, wrapped in the best silk.
He had to swear an oath to the 'baron' , duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed.
At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a 'baron' .
‘Your Highness,’ the 'baron' bowed to the duke, stepping aside.
a press 'baron'
John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a 'baron' .
Attendants of an earl, viscount or 'baron' wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based 'baron' whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages.
A railroad 'baron' then donated his property on Nob Hill for a diocesan cathedral.
Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or 'baron' who owned that lord's property.
Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a 'baron' in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.
The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English 'baron' , who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood.
The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new 'baron' and baroness were created by the king.
Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons 'baron' opening it up.
The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical 'barons' are the most powerful lobby in Washington.
Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal 'barons' and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house.
Somehow reorder the world so that drugs would be treated in the same way as fags - legal but educated against - and the drugs lords and narcotics 'barons' would lose their power.
It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber 'barons' , none of which you want to mess with.
From the Magna Carta, English princes and 'barons' made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom.
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