Victorian era -would a schoolmaster be considered a gentleman??

Question

Would a schoolmaster have been considered a gentleman? and would he have been invited to balls and parties?

Answer 1

Being a schoolmaster did not automatically qualify you as a gentleman. A country school master, for instance, would have been considered a peasant.
Around 1900 a young gentleman graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, and decided to become a Catholic. He was immediately assigned to a school in a poor farm area of western Ireland. Since his family disowned him he was merely a teacher/farmer. The Victorian elite enforced a ruthless class system, even among members of their own class.

Answer 2

No- teachers, tutors were servant class... perhaps merchant genteel, but by no means invited to balls and elaborate parties. Those were attended by the 'ton:' the upper "ten thousand" of England, or those with noble blood, even if it was thin and they were excessively poor.

Answer 3

No, he would have had to mingle with shop keepers, apothecaries and such. Unless he was from a cleric family, has been to Oxford or Cambridge, and a private tutor to some rich or noble family.