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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you really must know then the answer is upper middle class with ancestry in the minor gentry. Much of the professional upper middle classes (barristers, clergy, army officers, senior civil service, certain types of doctors) were effectively younger sons and grandsons of the gentry. They carried themselves similarly as the gentry did, they attended the same schools, went to Oxford or Cambridge, held the same values, belonged to the same clubs, had the ancestry, but were a bit of a notch down due to not being landowners themselves. They, as a group, were somewhat different from the other half of the upper middle classes whose incomes came from trade and manufacturing.

His brother, Mycroft, is a very senior government civil service official. Another typical role for this group.

It was also normal for many of this class to live off of private incomes, the interest of capital invested in the markets. Being a gentleman of leisure was desirable. Or private incomes supplemented what incomes they earned if worked.

John Watson was more middle class than Holmes because he did not have wealth nor gentry ancestry but by American standards he'd have also be upper middle class.

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Wow. That pretty much answers it then.  You sound like you know what you're talking about :wink: [/quote]

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