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The St John ladies of Lydiard Park certainly had a penchant for gardening.  From Johanna, famous for her herbal remedies,...

I'd like to say a huge thank you to my readers for their support during Good Gentlewoman's first year.  Actually, this blog...

According to librettist W.S. Gilbert - 'When constabulary duty's to be done, a policeman's lot is not a happy one.' The same...

Frederick St John's wife may have had a novel name and like that other Jane Eyre she too stood by her man through good times...

When the three St John Mildmay sisters married in the early nineteenth century, they each acquired a country residence...

Antonia Fraser, Judith Kazantzis and Rachel Billington are three sisters who have made their mark on the literary scene...

Sometimes the fleeting good gentlewoman passes almost without trace, leaving us to marvel at her wondrous ancestry and her...

If there was one attribute the Villiers family had in abundance it was - how can I put this - a tendency to be lewd and...

When it come to memorials, whether in stained glass, marble or oil painting, no family does it better than the St John...

In the 1660s the war torn medieval castle of Dromana high above the River Blackwater in County Waterford commanded stunning...