Dean of Faculty

British  

noun

1. the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland

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Example Sentences

“Questions about policing, police brutality, crime, and race matter a lot to our society,” Dean of Faculty Peter Uvin wrote in a email to the CMC community, obtained by The Forum.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2017

CLA Associate Dean of Faculty Ana Paula Ferreira said liberal arts leaders aren’t worried about faculty retirements, though the college’s average age is relatively old.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2015

Sinclair, Dean of Faculty, expecting preferment, instead of championing the bar, was the first to swear to the Regulations.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord

Afterwards he became secretary of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, in the promotion of which he was associated with Mr. Andrew Bannatyne, the late Dean of Faculty, and the first solicitor to the company.

From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)

Lord Glencairn and the Dean of Faculty, Mr. H. Erskine, have taken me under their wing; and by all probability I shall soon be the tenth worthy, and the eighth wise man in the world.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert