| For instance, Linacre, the personal physician of Henry VIII, had the been rector of four parishes, a canon at three cathedrals and precentor at York Minster. |
| Without a precentor to coordinate in a professional manner the musicians and the musical instruments there could not be a concert. |
| Sir Frederick was appointed precentor whilst a non-residentiary in 1855, but became a residentiary in 1886, three years before his death. |
| He explains that his wife's grandfather was a Gaelic precentor who led the singing of the psalms in Skye. |
| My answer is this: the manager is for a company what a precentor is for an orchestra. |
| Davies had moved to the medieval city two years earlier, to take up the ancient post of canon precentor at Salisbury cathedral. |
