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* A [[Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe]], often in the Calabash style (the style [[Sherlock Holmes]] made famous).
* A crazy mustache.
* Making lots of references to [[Royal Blood|the Queen]] (God Save Her!), or the King for either anachronism points or
* An Autoharp or harpsichord playing in the background.
* A cane or umbrella.
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* Bernard Fox also did this very well:
** Col. Rodney Crittendon on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''
** Major Ross in the episode "Tea and Empathy" of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
** Major Bently Royce on ''[[F Troop]]''
** Sub-Lieutenant Clivedon on ''[[McHales Navy]]''
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== Web Original ==
* MikeJ from ''[[That Guy With The Glasses
* Parodied/deconstructed with ''[[Englishman]]'', who is in some ways the stereotypical British gentleman as imagined by Americans (he lives in the USA, and [[They Fight Crime|fights crime]]), but the series is written by two Britons. Also, he embodies the darker side of the British upper classes as well, cheerfully trading in slaves, shooting foreigners and so on.
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: Fey's magic tutor Sir Wallace Westmont, who's virtually a [[Shout-Out]] to John Steed, down to the bowler and accent. He even has an [[Action Girl]] accompanying him to [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]].
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* Mr. Green online casino has a series of videos dedicated to this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2IAQEgJ_tI Here's the first one.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/adamzonetopmarks "GameChap and Bertie"] of [[YouTube]] fame play off this trope.
* This is the online persona of [[YouTube]] personality [[The Spiffing Brit]].
== Western Animation ==
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