Ecclesiastical Commissioners

British  

plural noun

1. the administrators of the properties of the Church of England from 1836 to 1948, when they were combined with Queen Anne's Bounty to form the Church Commissioners

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Example Sentences

There were no Ecclesiastical Commissioners to whom he could appeal, and the people of the neighbourhood were too limited in their circumstances to help him to any large extent.

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

He ordered the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to deprive them of their sees; but in this matter even the Commissioners shrank from obeying him.

From History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by Green, John Richard

Transcribed and edited from the original Roll in the possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Class in Palæography and Diplomatic, under the supervision of the Lecturer, Hubert Hall, F.S.A., of H.M.

From An Example of Communal Currency The facts about the Guernsey Market House by Harris, J. Theodore

In the year 1837 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were embodied.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

What better could the Ecclesiastical Commissioners do with all those rich revenues which they had stolen from the bishops?

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony