Since footmen work in the upstairs rooms serving the noble family, their elegant appearance is considered a reflection of status and pride of the family itself.
As you might expect, livery is related to deliver and delivery and comes from the Medieval French word meaning "delivery. Livery can also mean the act of delivering legal possession of property and the care and housing of horses for pay. And a livery stable is where horses and vehicles are kept for hire, which led to the term's use for the registration of taxicabs.
Titles in British nobility also known as the peerage denote rank. The five ranks, in descending order, are:. A striking thing about these titles is that, with one exception, they all come from French. Only earl is an etymologically English word. William the Conqueror was himself the Duke of Normandy, and the French noble titles came across the Channel with him when he invaded Britain in The feminine form of the title, marchioness , is pronounced MAHR-shuh-nus.
Earl is an ancient title that comes from the Old English word for "warrior" or "nobleman. Viscount is pronounced VYE-count, and is, etymologically speaking, a "vice-count" or inferior count. An abbey is either a monastery ruled by an abbot or a convent ruled by an abbess. There were many abbeys in the English countryside dating from medieval times that were repossessed by King Henry VIII when he split with the Catholic church in the s the so-called Dissolution of the Monasteries , and these properties were often given to nobles who used the locations to build family mansions.
Occasionally the new mansion would integrate part of the medieval abbey architecture into the design. Highclere Castle, the real site of Downton Abbey , stands on the location of the ancient residence of the Bishops of Winchester.
The house we see today was designed by Sir Charles Barry - who also designed the British Houses of Parliament - around They arrange a marriage between eldest daughter Mary Michelle Dockery and the next heir, cousin Patrick, and bob's your uncle—everything stays in the family. Except Patrick goes down with the Titanic , and the next heir—much to the consternation of the imperious dowager countess Emmy winner Maggie Smith , who delivers every cutting quip with undisguised relish is a working solicitor aka lawyer.
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