I want to know what these points mean please and thank you. I'm trying to describe middle class gentry.
it is a territorial elite. It transcends status derived from service or personal association on the one hand and the authority derived from mere landlordship on the other. Given that levels of wealth vary, there is a natural tendency towards the development of social gradation.
It relates to public authority which is both active and relatively distant; that is to say a public authority which requires the services of a local elite but which is unable to support a paid bureaucracy in the localities.