He has also served variously as governor of five Kew schools, churchwarden, Justice of the Peace and trustee of local charities. |
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The vicar is distraught, but too meek and mild to withstand his determined churchwarden. |
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Moved to adoration by scatterbrained, widowed Lavinia Brandon's charm were the vicar, his greensick pupil and his middle-aged churchwarden. |
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Collecting the parish rate also fell to the churchwarden who had responsibility for repairing parish roads and bridges and paying performing bellringers. |
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Or that, perhaps, his churchwarden ended up shattering, upon meeting the floor, three years ago in January. |
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But no, there was a change even from last year, for the ladies as well as the men were smoking churchwarden pipes. |
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On 27th June 1665 he left London to escape the Great Plague and settled at Hersham, having been appointed churchwarden at the parish church of Walton-upon-Thames. |
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Seeing it on the ground, public-spirited churchwarden John Shardlow appropriately took it into nearby St James's church for safe keeping until he could arrange for its repair. |
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Christiane has always been involved socially in a variety of projects as director of cultural services, as churchwarden, and as neighbourhood watch volunteer, among other things. |
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He became sidesman, treasurer and later churchwarden at Coleshill Parish Church where one of the church bells carries his name. |
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Keens's custom holds that when a member dies, friends and family ceremoniously break the stem of his or her churchwarden so that it can never be smoked again. |
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As the wooden door shut behind me, I stuffed some recently bought tobacco into the head of the churchwarden, pulled out a match and sucked away while trying to get the surprisingly stubborn little memento to light. |
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The churchwarden pipes in question are roughly 15 inches long, emblazoned with the handwritten number assigned to each owner and kept on the premises, since they are far too fragile to transport. |
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It would appall Eliot, the Anglo-Catholic churchwarden, to hear it, but his vision of a society collapsing into spiritual ruin is very close to what Qutb tries to conjure in his depiction of jahiliyyah. |
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