GENTLEMAN

The term ‘G.’ is of very vague and shifting meaning today, but though it has almost become a politer synonym of ‘man,’ as ‘lady’ S of ‘woman,’ every one recognizes that properly regarded it implies someing of good manners, good taste, good education, and good feeling to others. In a more usual and general sense it is applied to one of a certain social position. guard of the Brit. sovereign, the title of corps being ‘the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms’; was founded by Henry VIII. as a personal guard, and recruited from young men of noble families; was originally known as ‘the King’s Pensioners and Spearmen,’ and later as ‘the Gentlemen Pensioners.’ The corps now does duty at levees and other state ceremonials in the palace and consists of a captain, who must be a r; five officers, all of whom must have held the rank of colonel or lieutenant colonel in the army; and forty gentlemen, all of whom have held, or hold, at least rank of captain in army or marines.