housemaster
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Brydson, an ex-army corporal from Renfrew, was housemaster at Monken Hadley.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
They begin in 1945, when le Carré, whose real name was David Cornwell, is 14 years old, and writes to his future boarding-school housemaster to say he is looking forward to school.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
For one thing, he had the good fortune to be assigned to a housemaster, Arthur Goodhart, who was a lax disciplinarian and who thought that music was more important than sports.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
In 1954, he wrote to my mother and asked her to marry him, inviting her to join him in America as the wife of a Groton housemaster.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2013
The housemaster was the delightful Reverend S. S. Mokitimi, who later became the first African president of the Methodist Church of South Africa.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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