Read full poem →dare' not approach with any capacity in ourselves to apply your smile,
since we have only preserved, as trustees to the ashes of the authors, what
we exhibit to your honour, it being no more our own, than those imperial
Dictionary Entry
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.
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Poetry examples for “trustees”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →together a set of gentlemen, of different professions and
more or less note, as a Board of Trustees for a school.
Within three months they had secured an Act of
Read full poem →The Vicar of Olney was in difficulties, with his affairs in the hands
of trustees. The duties of his office were entirely discharged by a
curate, and the vicarage was to let. Lady Austen, in 1782, rented it,