Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
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Their full title is Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024
The full title of the role is Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wigged and white-ruffled, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod summoned M.P.s to hear Queen Elizabeth's dissolution speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the following Saturday, the Earl of Derwentwater was brought by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod before the Bar, where he knelt, until told by the Lord Chancellor to rise.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
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