Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a bar was installed at the Royal Albert Hall, last week, just 61 years after its foundation, the first person to order a drink was The Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His Majesty, and Dean of Windsor...
While sipping a glass of fine tawny sherry, the Very Reverend Chaplain-in-ordinary said: "It would be nonsensical for anyone to suppose [sip] that I am now encouraging drunkenness...
Like the present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom...
Bishop Temple's father was the late Frederick Temple, Dr. Davidson's immediate predecessor as Archbishop of Canterbury. William Temple, Archbishop of York-to-be, was Archbishop Davidson's chaplain at Canterbury...
...recorded that the Hussar Duke, before riding his race, asked the blessing of the Rev. J. H. Davies, Vicar of Westley Waterless, near Newmarket, who last fortnight said: "I am the chaplain to the King's Horses and the King's Stablemen . . . before the 'Guineas' I asked God's blessing on the stables. ... In answer to my supplication or by Chance, the horse...