He practised landscape painting as an amateur and exhibited twelve untraced landscapes at the Royal Academy from 1804 and 1821 as an "Honorary Exhibitor", a designation for gentleman amateurs.

Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the Grand Prix in which the results would become dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war races.

Murray's hand-books, often written by gentleman amateurs, feature obscure antiquarian anecdotes and apposite classical quotations - in untranslated Greek or Latin.

Unlike most other gentleman amateurs, Kortright trained hard and bowled fast off a long run-up.

In both regions painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist, and the furthest removed from manual labour - in Chinese painting the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs.

Philipson has been described as "one of those late Victorian gentleman amateurs quite indecently blessed by fortune".

For Lancashire, as a professional or "player" in a team largely made up of "gentleman" amateurs he was expected to open the bowling and sometimes to bowl all day in tandem with the other professionals; Barlow, Crossland, Mold.

Its illustrations were among the first of their kind and the work was welcomed by antiquaries, scholars, and gentleman amateurs.

As was the convention of the time gentleman amateurs have their initials in front of their surname and professional players have their initials after their name, if used at all.

This was the last tour to use the old divisions of amateurs and professionals in English cricket so the convention remained of gentleman amateurs having their initials in front of their surname and professional players with their initials after their name, if used at all.