vestryman
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vestrymen
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He’d been a Columbia College trustee, a Trinity Church vestryman, president of the Philharmonic Society, co-founder of the Union League Club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In the years after the White House, Mr. Bush wrote his memoirs and divided his time between Houston and the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he was a vestryman of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2018
At various points in his life, he was an architect, a builder, a planter, a farmer, a church vestryman, a court justice, a sheriff, a county official and an innkeeper.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2018
Shaw's opinions on municipal politics and public health at the turn of the century were formed and sharpened by his years as a vestryman and borough councillor for the St Pancras district of London.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
"I mean, are you talking to me as a friend—or as a vestryman?"
From Thirty by Howard Vincent O'Brien
In the early 1850s, three vestrymen from Christ Church founded the chapel, where services were led by lay members and volunteer students from Virginia Theological Seminary.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Holy Trinity's vestrymen have viewed young William's activities with a less approving eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
But before he left Detroit Dean Johnson had a final fling at vestrymen and congregation, made a final plea for the freedom of the pulpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not propose that they should be vestrymen, though I cannot forget that Shakespeare did not disdain to concern himself in the local business of Stratford-upon-Avon.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
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