Stout Yeoman

The Wessex Yeomanry, Royal British Legion and SSAFA

Stout Yeomen

Are you old enough to remember the Monty Python sketch of the pompous guest ordering “An Imperial Pint of your finest foaming ale, Stout Yeoman”. I’ve had a bit of a Yeomanry week. The Yeomanry were small freeholding landowners- neither the gentry nor the peasantry, but somewhere in between. From 1761 they formed themselves into a precursor …