gentleman-commoner

He had been very assiduous to pin himself upon George Prankley, who was a gentleman-commoner of Christchurch, knowing the said Prankley was heir to a considerable estate, and would have the advowson of a good living, the incumbent of which was very old and infirm.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

But the universities were still open to Louis Philippe, and before he was eighteen he was entered as a gentleman-commoner at

Doctor Thorne 2004

Or the rich nonconformist, risen perhaps from obscurity to a rank in society, indulging either his spleen or his pride -- either to send his eldest son as a gentleman-commoner to Christ-Church, to swallow the Thirty-nine

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

His son Sampson, born in the reign of Henry VIII, entered Brasenose College, Oxford, as a a gentleman-commoner in 1553.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

In pursuance of his plan for getting the best of everything, his father had chosen the best college, as far as he knew, that in which social and scholastic advantages were believed to be found in pre-eminent combination, and he had chosen what was thought to be the best position in the college; so that it was as gentleman-commoner of Christ Church that John Ruskin made his entrance into the academic world.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

The gentleman-commoner "voted the affair d---- d slow," and declined the party altogether in favor of the gamekeeper and a cigar.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

At the age of fifteen he was entered as a gentleman-commoner at Christchurch, Oxford.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

In pursuance of his plan for getting the best of everything, his father had chosen the best college, as far as he knew, that in which social and scholastic advantages were believed to be found in pre-eminent combination, and he had chosen what was thought to be the best position in the college; so that it was as gentleman-commoner of Christ Church that John Ruskin made his entrance into the academic world.

The Life of John Ruskin 1893

The apostasy of a gentleman-commoner would of course be for a time the chief subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

William had been entered as a gentleman-commoner of Christ Church, at the beginning of the Michaelmas term of 1660.

William Penn George Hodges 1887