Abbr. for gentry

Usage examples of esq.

Mary Honeywood was daughter and one of the coheiresses of Robert Waters, Esq.

Impressed with this idea, a gentleman in this parish, Robert Riddel, Esq.

The Park, the advowson of the living, and the greater part of the parish, were bought by Joseph Baxendale, Esq.

I do not now especially speak of the daring speculations of the distinguished husband of a beautiful lady whose delightful society is known to us all--need I say I refer to Quincy Brimmer, Esq.

The mob destroyed every cargo of tea that arrived in the port, and the assembly showed its hostility by petitioning for the removal of the chief-justice, Peter Oliver, Esq.

If there be any gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq.

As Albert Charlton lay awake in his unplastered room in the house of Plausaby, Esq.

A Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.

Marian, late Countess of Pendennyss, in her own right, being born of her marriage with George Denbigh, Esq.

The major whom it mentions, was General Andrew Dunlop, who died in 1804: Rachel Dunlop was afterwards married to Robert Glasgow, Esq.

Mary Honeywood was daughter and one of the coheiresses of Robert Waters, Esq.

February, 1543, at sixteen years of age, to her only husband, Robert Honeywood, Esq.

English government and its chartered Companies as they might be able to secure, they were no doubt primarily brought together by the efforts of one of their number, Thomas Weston, Esq.

My desire of being acquainted with celebrated men of every description, had made me, much about the same time, obtain an introduction to Dr. Samuel Johnson and to John Wilkes, Esq.

I returned, I was struck with observing Dr. Samuel Johnson and John Wilkes, Esq.