Charity Commissioners

British  

plural noun

1. (in Britain) members of a commission constituted to keep a register of charities and control charitable trusts

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Example Sentences

From the Report of the Charity Commissioners it appears that the Goldsmiths' charitable funds, exclusive of gifts by Sir Martin Bowes, amount to £2,013 per annum.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Previous to the investigations of the Charity Commissioners, the fine school-room was locked up, and the books of the library torn for waste paper to light fires. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel

The Governors at once requested permission from the Charity Commissioners to suspend for six months the post of Usher and to appoint a temporary Assistant to take the work.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen

Potation Day was celebrated to the usual accompaniment of Figs until the year 1860, when the Charity Commissioners objected to it and to the Governors' dinners as a waste of trust funds.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen

Norwich Town Council approved a scheme formulated by the Charity Commissioners for the administration of Anguish’s endowment for boys. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles