Gentry

English: Gentry denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class. In its widest connotation, it refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates, upper levels of the clergy, and "gentle" families of long descent who never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms.

Below is the traditional gentry of the British isles illustrated through surnames, titles, regional variances of ancestry and portrait art in varying epochs.

Elizabeth de Clare
His Lordship Bishop William Smyth
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
William Dugdale
Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet
George Churchill
Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
James Oglethorpe
Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet
Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Derby
William Windham
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Rowland Egerton-Warburton
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet
The Honourable Jane Plumer Erskine
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 24th Baron de Ros
Clements Markham
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat
Lady Margaret Sackville
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
Thomas Innes of Learney
David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley

The portraits (below) are illustrations of the Swedish gentry.

Clas Fleming
Johan Gyllenstierna
Count Nils Bielke
Count Jacob De la Gardie
Göran Silfverhielm
Anders Celsius
Countess Eva Ekeblad
Count Augustin Ehrensvärd
The Right Reverend Carl Jesper Benzelius
Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten
Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna
Countess Sophie Piper
Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Carl Gustaf von Brinkman
Malla Silfverstolpe
Magnus Brahe
Countess Jaquette Löwenhielm
Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Baron Fredrik von Essen

The Baltic Gentry consisted of various nationalities and depended for example extensively on the Swedish Empires or Russian Empires cultural and administrative representation in the Baltics