LONDON - Viscount Timothy Torrington’s story reads like a real-life version of Downton Abbey, the hit period drama about the family of an earl who has no direct heir to his title. Like the fictional ...

THE word “gentleman” is peculiarly English. In other languages it has counterparts, but not equivalents. Although its application has been widened even in England during the last century, the core of ...

ARISTOCRACY IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. IN the course of the last article I said that England had been able to pass through a highly convenient intermediate stage, that of an aristocratic republic ...

In western Ireland, Darcy’s the English form of Ó Dorchaidhe, “descendant of the dark one.” Patrick Darcy (1598-1668) was a Galway lawyer who wrote the constitution for Confederate Ireland, Catholic ...