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'''Squire''' was a title. Typically denoting the assistant of a noble of higher rank, it was also used as a mere title of nobility in [[England]]. | '''Squire''' was a title. Typically denoting the assistant of a noble of higher rank, it was also used as a mere title of nobility in [[England]]. | ||
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The eldest surviving male member of the Holmes family, [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s eldest brother [[Sherringford Holmes]] held the title of squire and took care of the old family farmstead in [[Yorkshire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') | The eldest surviving male member of the Holmes family, [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s eldest brother [[Sherringford Holmes]] held the title of squire and took care of the old family farmstead in [[Yorkshire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') | ||
[[Edwards (The Smugglers)|Edwards]] was the squire of a small village in [[Cornwall]] in the seventeenth century. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'') | |||
[[Winstanley]] assumed this title in [[Devil's End]]. ([[TV]]: [[The Dæmons (TV story)|''The Dæmons'']]) | |||
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[[Category:Titles and offices from the real world]] | [[Category:Titles and offices from the real world]] | ||
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Squire (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Squire was a title. Typically denoting the assistant of a noble of higher rank, it was also used as a mere title of nobility in England.
Bostock served as squire to the knight Orcini of the Grand Order of Oberon. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks) During the Last Great Time War, the title of the Squire was adopted, in the vein of the Doctor and other Renegade Time Lord's noms de guerre, by a member of the Volatix Cabal who fought at the War Doctor's side. (COMIC: The Then and the Now)
The eldest surviving male member of the Holmes family, Sherlock Holmes's eldest brother Sherringford Holmes held the title of squire and took care of the old family farmstead in Yorkshire. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
Edwards was the squire of a small village in Cornwall in the seventeenth century. (TV: The Smugglers)
Winstanley assumed this title in Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)
