See to the manor born on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2008, H. W. Crocker, III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "Wade Hampton was to the manor born. One of the largest landholders in the South, educated in the Southern gentlemanly tradition, skilled with guns and horses, courtly with women, experienced in politics, one would expect that he was cut from the same scarlet cloak as the dashing cavalryman he served under, J. E. B. (Jeb) Stuart.",
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