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Debrett's has published a range of guides on traditional British etiquette, dating from the mid 1900s.Those currently in print include Debrett's A–Z of Modern Manners, Debrett's Guide for the Modern Gentleman and Debrett's Handbook, a revised and updated version of its Correct Form.
Visiting cards became an indispensable tool of etiquette, with sophisticated rules governing their use.The essential convention was that a first person would not expect to see a second person in the second's own home (unless invited or introduced) without having first left his visiting card at the second's home.
Charles Kidd (Ed.), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 (149th Edition, Debrett's Ltd, London, 2014) Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736) The daily telegraph,mad about the mansion,a review of hassobury manor (27 February 2005)
The wardrobe of The Late John Morgan, arbiter of taste and modern manners was put up for auction on 14 November 2000 at Christie's London, South Kensington, "with the hope that money will be raised to name a seat in his memory at the Royal Opera House."
A Handy Guide-Book to the Japanese Islands; Bear-hunting in the White Mountains; or, Alaska and British Columbia revisted (1891) "How I Shot My Lions" in Everybody's Magazine (January 1900) My Sporting Holidays (1904) Chapter in Early American Big Game Hunting (1905)
Bigwood in 1895. James Bigwood (1839 – 6 December 1919) was an English manufacturer and Conservative politician.. Bigwood was born at Bristol. [1] He was educated at Cotham, Bristol and at St John's College, Cambridge (BA. 1853, MA. 1866). [2]
Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet DL (12 August 1839 – 5 December 1907) was a Scottish landowner, cattle breeder and Liberal politician.. Macpherson-Grant was the son of Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 2nd Baronet of Ballindalloch and his wife Marion Helen Campbell, daughter of Mungo Nutter Campbell.
Charles James Valentine (September 1837 – 1900) [1] was an English ironmaster and a Conservative politician. Valentine was born at Mossley, Lancashire, [2] the son of James Valentine, of Stockport and his wife Mary Bradbury. He was educated privately and became an ironmaster in Cumberland.