The gentry: The rise and fall of a ruling class

by G.E. Mingay

Genres: History

216 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1976

About the author

Professor Gordon Edmund Mingay, 1923-2006, was a British agrarian historian and lecturer.

Mingay served to lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947.

Lecturer London School of Economics, 1957-1965.
Reader University Kent, Canterbury, 1965-1968,
Professor agrarian history, 1968-1986,
Emeritus professor agrarian history, from 1987.

He was a member of the British Agricultural History Society (and it's president from 1986).

Reviews

[Ellie McGowan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was interesting, but not highly useful for me. I kind of knew that before I started it, seeing as it is about the gentry as a whole, and I only need the Welsh gentry under the Tudors, but still, I got a couple of quotes from it.

[Rusty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helps non-English understand the English class system better.