The education of elite women in Philadelphia after 1740 followed the British model developed by the gentry classes during the early 18th century.

This essentially limited the electorate to the gentry class.

The social status of Cromwell's family at his birth was relatively low within the gentry class.

From the coats of arms on his tombstone, it is believed he came from the gentry class.

Cromwell's father Robert was of modest means but still inside the gentry class.

In theory, democracy is supposed to predominate over all the machinations of the gentry class.

So are Greys and members of the gentry class.

His enthusiasm for such things seemed rather quirky, even for a member of the gentry class.

The gentry class had been fine-tuning its tone of command for twenty millennia.

The gentry class won concessions from the government and resisted tax increases.