Read full poem →money for the erection of a monument, but the
Royalist Rector would not allow it to be put up.
Dictionary Entry
In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rectorrector becamerector firstrector newrector lord
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Poetry examples for “rector”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →id bJaak Epacee. His father, a Cambridgrehire
man by birth, was rector of Winestead in Yoflt-
shire, where Andrew waG born on the jistof
Read full poem →under Warren Hastings and the Marquis Conwallis. Edward
Larkyn, B. D., was rector of Titsey 1640, etc. Volumes of
data are available connecting the names Larkin and Kent
Read full poem →tonby. Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford 1568, was
Rector of Thraxton Hants, 1590.
CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL AND DOROTHY WHATELY.
Read full poem →Was rector of Gately, Hants, in 1645. His loyalty to
Charles I. drew the displeasure of the Cromwell party and he
Read full poem →Rev. William, Bapt. April 13, 1629, at Wayhill, Hants.
Was rector of Upper Clatford, Hants 1664, where his
six children were born.
Read full poem →factory, and now for many years a priest) ; the Rev.
Mr. Manson, rector of the little parish in Easthara, and
editor of "The Church Post," which he pleasantly called
Read full poem →Is this a picture of the son of the Rector of Welwyn? “Eighth Night:”—
Read full poem →He was born at Trottin, in Sussex, March 3, 1651, the son of Mr. Humphry
Otway, rector of Woolbeding. From Winchester school, where he was
educated, he was entered, in 1669, a commoner of Christ church; but left
Read full poem →account, prefixed to his poems by a nameless friend; who relates, that he
was the son of the Rev. Mr. Pomfret, rector of Luton, in Bedfordshire;
that he was bred at Cambridge[87], entered into orders, and was rector of