Nominations for what makes a gentlemab

Yes, he was.

Let me explain. of the patronising kind. For J

ww entitled the thread "blah blah.... Makes a gentlemab"

Cherrytree said she doesn't know what makes a rough mab.

Geddit?

No

Oh leave orf!!!!

Have you all had a touch of the sun, or has drink been taken? Both?

Yes, geddit.

Still trying to think
I would have said David Beckham, but he had that affair

Both loving this weather.

Oh! Perhaps I get it

At least he didn't flaunt it.

The affair I mean. He's flaunted a lot of other manly attributes

Oh but that wouldn't stop him being a gentleman. Would it? Just a norty gentleman. Bless.

Still trying to think of live contenders. Surely they cannot all be dead?

I'm not so sure - would a true gentleman have an affair behind his wife's back?
Surely not
Presumably he has been redeeming himself ever since and has turned into a gentleman

To retain the true meaning of gentleman I think that an affair would mean that the lovely David Beckham could not be called a gentleman. A lovely chap though.

There must be others? Poor dos if not. I'm not keen on blokes. There is nothing subtle or smooth about a bloke.

Geoff Hamilton the gardener, sadly also passed away several years ago.

My husband, father in law and sons are all gentlemen. I would be very disappointed in myself (and my husband) if my sons were not.

Jacob Rees Mogg?

No, that's a parody of a gentleman!

Although a hymn to a gentleman's outfitters.

I always think gentleman means a gentle man - but perhaps it's short for "gentry", I don't know. Anyway that's what the word means to me - a gentle man.

H is a gentle man, polite, kind, considerate, well mannered, well groomed...........

and a grumpy old git sometimes
As for anyone famous. It's hard to know what is a false image and what is true gentlemanly behaviour.

I imagine Timothy West is a gentleman.

One test of whether David Beckham is a gentleman should be how he treated the woman with whom he had an affair.

My favourite definition of a gentleman is someone who never gives offence unintentionally.

My DH is a gentleman. He is kind and considerate to people and has got his priorities right I think. My sister described him last week as 'too nice' which means he is sometimes too eager to please others at his own expense. I'm trying to 'cure' him of that

As another one of you said recently- stop it, the tears are running down my legs! Nomination for dead gentlemen Alan Rickman and my Dad. Living gentleman - David Cameron - whoops, massive typo there, meant to say Dara O'Briain, he always seems like a nice, gentle, funny man.