yeomanry
- 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.