Crossword clues for bencher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bencher \Bench"er\, n.
(Eng. Law) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
An alderman of a corporation. [Eng.]
--Ashmole.A member of a court or council. [Obs.]
--Shak.One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en Canadian law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick). 2 (context British obsolete legal English) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court. 3 (context UK obsolete English) An alderman of a corporation. 4 (context obsolete English) A member of a court or council. 5 (context obsolete English) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
Wikipedia
A bencher or Master of the Bench is a senior member of an Inn of Court in England and Wales and Ireland. Benchers hold office for life once elected. A bencher can be elected while still a barrister (usually, but not always, Queen's Counsel), in recognition of the contribution that the barrister has made to the life of the Inn or to the law. Others become benchers as a matter of course when appointed as a High Court Judge. The Inn may elect non-members as honorary benchers – for example, distinguished judges and lawyers from other countries, eminent non-lawyers or members of the British Royal Family, who become known as "Royal Benchers" once elected.
A member of each Inn is the Treasurer, a position which is held for one year only. While succession to the post of Treasurer was once dependent purely on seniority, this is no longer the case. The Treasurer is now elected.
Usage examples of "bencher".
Richard Bencher did have a livid scar across his forehead, but he had a different explanation for it.
Biddy Bencher said that Wing Manion was a sexpot who happened to be a saint and so was complicated back on herself.
Bedelia Bencher, but who can take seriously a girl with her pink hair standing on end?
Biddy Bencher sparked, for she was the walking tentacle of the world-eater.
Bauer was being opposed by a strong and intelligent man, Richard Bencher, the father of Bedelia.
He was suggesting to Bencher that they should kill James Bauer and destroy his residue-brain by a method which Hondo believed would work.
And he suggested that he, Bencher, should then join them in the weave in place of Bauer.
There was real mystery and cyclonic energy about that strange duality which Bencher did not begin to understand.
Silverio of the spiral passion was drawn insanely to Bencher, as she was to all strong men.
He discovered, as had Richard Bencher, the iridescent limbs and rousing music of parts of their dragon.
Bedelia Bencher was on the edge of his mind, impudent and exasperating.
But Bencher was reading Foley while he played this game with the guards.
Bedelia Bencher also came and watched a moment in her wraith-extension.
Freddy known Bencher at first sight here, when he was surely that man in every point of him?
Biddy Bencher, did it seem to Foley that things had gone irrevocably wrong?