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A grandson of a co-founder of Texaco, Mr. Lloyd grew up lonely and introspective on a 400-acre estate in New Canaan, Conn. His father was chilly and remote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Emergency services were called to reports of a vehicle fire at 23:30 BST on Sunday close to an industrial estate and retail park in the centre of the town.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her ex-fiancé feared that the same person would continue to “misappropriate” items belonging to the actor’s estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Some crafty bond market person had gazed upon the subprime mortgage sprawl, as an ambitious real estate developer might gaze upon Oakland, and found an opportunity to rebrand some of the turf.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Juan Munoz-Oca, the estates director for Marchesi Antinori’s U.S. business, said he learned of the theft Thursday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Known to local real-estate agents as Billionaires’ Bluff, the enclave is known for its blufftop estates, as well as beach houses, like McEnroe’s, on the sand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Under the current rules, estates worth more than £325,000, or £500,000 if a home is left to children or grandchildren, can face a 40% tax rate on assets above the threshold.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is drawn from the King's private money, which includes his income from the Duchy of Lancaster, private estates and his own investments and inheritances.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

But Thaddeus, otherwise Thady Macdermot, being an estated gentleman, must have a gentleman's residence on his estate, and the house of Ballycloran was accordingly built.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

I mean, of course, of the elder branch, for there are swarms of the others, well to do and prosperous also, and with fine estated properties.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.

From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory