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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange.
''Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could."''
|''[[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]''}}
A staple in [[Gaslamp Fantasy]] and [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]s with a Victorian-esque society, is the '''Gentleman Wizard'''. He is, essentially, an aristocratic [[Blue Blood]] who also happens to be some sort of magician, alchemist, wizard or what have you.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* The guy wearing the bowler hat with the huge umbrella from the Travellers Insurance commercials a few years ago. Dignified, prim and proper, helping people out using his magic as he comes across them.▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Negi Springfield, though quite a young one.
* England from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has used magic in the series a couple of times. He's also shown interacting with magical creatures.
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* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', we have Clow Reed and {{spoiler|his reincarnation}} Eriol.
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▲* The guy wearing the bowler hat with the huge umbrella from the Travellers Insurance commercials a few years ago. Dignified, prim and proper, helping people out using his magic as he comes across them.
* Roderick Burgess in ''[[The Sandman]]''.
* [[Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things|Courtney Crumrin's]] uncle Aloysius.
* [[Mandrake the Magician]] may have been a [[Trope Codifier]], as he was quite the gentleman and quite the mage.▼
* In the style of Mandrake, there's also Zatara, from [[DC Comics]] (best known now as the father of [[Zatanna]]).
* [[Doctor Strange]], overlapping with [[Gentleman and a Scholar]] (since his power is based on his knowledge) and [[Cultured Badass]].
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== Literature ==
* Most of the magic-users in Mercedes Lackey's ''[[Elemental Masters]]'' series are this.
* Both the eponymous characters in ''[[Jonathan Strange
* The Chrestomanci are indisputably this in [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s [[Chrestomanci]] series. Most wizards or magicians in her books follow this pattern.
** Howl from [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'' and its [[Hayao Miyazaki]] [[
* Several characters in ''[[Sorcery and Cecelia]]'' by [[Patricia C. Wrede]] and [[Caroline Stevermer]].
* From ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'':
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* Felix Harrowgate and other wizards in ''[[Doctrine of Labyrinths]]''.
== [[Live
* Giles could be said to borderline this on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. He's a total British gentleman when you don't make him mad, uses magic although it isn't innate with him, and does used borrowed magic in season 6 to try and stop Willow.
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▲* [[Mandrake the Magician]] may have been a [[Trope Codifier]], as he was quite the gentleman and quite the mage.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Castle Falkenstein]]'': Morrolon definitely counts; indeed, most male sorcerers in this setting do. Most female sorcerers manage to be the [[Distaff Counterpart|Lady Wizard]] instead.
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* John Wellington Wells, of J. W. Wells & Co a family firm, from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''The Sorcerer''
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[[Category:Always Male]]
[[Category:An Index of Ladies and Gentlemen]]
[[Category:Wizards and Witches]]
▲[[Category:Gentleman Wizard]]
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