Toqueville (contemporary):
- Reason elite survived was because of its fluidity
Perkin (19th century):
- Vast amounts of money in bourgeoisie attractive to impoverished landed elite
Richard Wilson:
- Clear interest to invest in land because of unstable nature of trade for middling sort
- Essex 1/2 19th Century landowners emerged in 18th Century
- High rate of land turnover
- 31 estates in Glamorganshire 1750 only 10 still owened by same family 50 years later
- 1/5 of those who purchased country houses members of parish gentry- most of them made their money through professions or business
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