What is "chairholders"

Usage examples of "chairholders".

Bunny thought about the Morrelines: he knew them in the casual way that all the Chairholders knew each other, but they were not really in his set.

So Fleet went in to sit on some malcontents, and ended up responsible for the deaths by starvation of several thousand people, the deaths by direct action of thousands more, and—if you care to look at it that way, which the then king did, the suicides of eighteen members of high-ranking families, including five of the six Chairholders most closely connected to Gleisco.

One did not usually inquire into the formal training of Family Chairholders, who were presumed to be broadly educated.

So Fleet went in to sit on some malcontents, and ended up responsible for the deaths by starvation of several thousand people, the deaths by direct action of thousands more, and—if you care to look at it that way, which the then king did, the suicides of eighteen members of high-ranking families, including five of the six Chairholders most closely connected to Gleisco.