land-holder

I had to look at him a second time ere I could recognise Jack Wallingford, my father's bachelor cousin, the western land-holder.

A rich land-holder will have his rice fields, sugar mill, vino factory, and cocoanut and hemp plantations.

If he was a land-holder, if all his children were Catholics, he was obliged to divide the land equally between them.

My name is Arthur Cherami, former land-holder, ci-devant premier high-liver of the capital.

Subsequently it was used in England to denote a land-holder who was of free but not of noble birth.