housemaster
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Some of the charges related to Burrows' time as a housemaster at Danesford School in Congleton, Cheshire, between 1969 and 1971.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
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
Reverend Mokitimi stood his ground: “Dr. Wellington, I am the housemaster and I have told you that I will report to you tomorrow, and that is what I will do.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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