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• n  class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
• n  a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army

• Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class.
• One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry.
• He stems from 240 years of Southern yeomanry whose natural enemies were bankers and big landlords.

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in OpEdNews
  Jefferson said, in an 1824 letter: "This degree of [free] education would ...... give us a body of yeomanry, too, of substantial information, well prepared to become a firm and steady support to the government."