There was an awful lot of opposition, he said – it was, after all, a stunning 18th-century landscape created for landed gentry in the manner of Capability Brown.
Disraeli's contribution was to transform the party from one that spoke primarily for landed interests to one that could draw supporters from the middle class and from newly enfranchised workers.
The Gracekeepers is set at an unspecified point in the future, but far enough away for rising waters to have swallowed the soil and for landed life to have taken on the element of myth.
When Country Life, the U.K. bible for landed gentry, checked who was snatching up the $3.5 million-plus country houses advertised in its glossy opening pages, it was no real surprise that professional footballers featured prominently.
The numbers were about the same for landed and landless individuals, indicating that wealth did not buffer the environment enough to prevent natural selection from culling or favoring individuals.
Usually, when a two-parent family applies for landed immigrant status, only one member in the family is granted the independent status.
