Crossword-Solution: BACKFIELDS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

The heir of all the Backfields was important enough to receive three Christian names--Reuben after his father, Thomas after old Gasson, and Albert after the Prince Consort.

The Backfields had always been Tory, just as they had always been Church, because Liberalism and Dissent were "low," and unworthy of yeomen farmers.

The neighbourhood was of Whig tendencies, spoon-fed from the Manor, but the Backfields had never submitted to Bardon politics; and now even the fact that the Squire held Reuben's land of promise, failed to influence him.

None of the Backfields had been to church for years, though Reuben prided himself on being a good churchman, and Pete was rather at a loss what to do in a ghostly crisis such as this.

They had not grown up in the least like her, and he was glad of that, for he would have hated to confront again her careless, lovely face, or the provoking little teeth of her smile; they were Backfields, dark of hair and swarthy of skin, David with grey eyes, William with brown.