What is Gentleman?
[[File:Daydreaming Gentleman.jpg|thumb|Daydreaming gentleman, [[postcard]] from [[Germany]], 1919. ]] [[File:Portrait of a Gentleman (GB 19c).jpg|thumb|Poertrait of a gentleman, 19th century painting.]] A '''gentleman''' is an historical term used in the [[British]] [[class system]] for an educated man who is [[wealthy]]. Its significance is that in a class system, people were educated, lived and worked in quite different ways according to the circumstances of their birth. This is behind the otherwise strange divide in sports like [[cricket]] between [[amateur]] and [[professional]]s (who often played in the same side), and between [[Rugby Union]] and [[Rugby League]]. This distinction is needed to understand many of the [[novels]], [[theatre|plays]], and [[films]] of the pre-[[WWII]] era. Similar distinctions ran in most other countries before the modern era. Consider the characters in [[Tolstoy]]'s ''[[War and Peace]]'' as an example. [[Category:Society]] [[Category:Men]]