What is "vestryman"

Usage examples of "vestryman".

He ducked back inside the church, spoke with a vestryman, then returned to Private Bean.

Now over seventy, James senior was a prominent citizen of Orange County, having been county lieutenant, justice of the peace, vestryman, and leading landowner.

His appearance was that of a respectable London vestryman rather than of a most redoubtable soldier with a particularly sinister career behind him.

This Christmas, Peony masterfully carried him up to her family, to Whipple Jackson, vestryman and wholesale grocer, in Faribault.

Her father, Trumbull Lambkin, was not only the leading druggist in town, which made him almost the same as a doctor, but also a director in the Housatonic Savings Bank, a member of the library board, and a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, and the Lambkins had lived in Black Thread for three long, tradition-crusted generations.

Westwind, the celebrated criminal lawyer, after-dinner speaker, and vestryman of St.

Nor was there any loss of interest in his various avocations, among which, in 1840, he found time to plan and supervise extensive alterations in Christ Church, of which he had become a vestryman in 1835.

Judge Nelson was for many years a vestryman, and later a warden, of Christ Church in Cooperstown.

Nelson was for many years a vestryman, and later a warden, of Christ Church in Cooperstown.

Bernard Shaw has found time to do no end of campaigning and even the parochial politics of a vestryman has not seemed too insignificant for his Fabian enthusiasm.

Continental town, it will only be after long lapse of time and violent struggles with the vestryman level of intellect and feeling.

My father was a vestryman, and also a member of the building committee.

Now this vestryman is probably telling everybody how the rector pokes fun of this poor miserable Happy Beans.

She dialed the number of every problem case in the parish she could think of, tried the vestrymen, the church secretary, the three co-chairmen of the fund-raising drive, and even the organist, a piano­.

When the world later to be known as Wanderjahr was discovered, it fit all the criteria the Brotherhood's vestrymen had established as necessary for settlement: far from the space lanes of the day, habitable by humans without the necessity of terraforming, and an environment capable of supporting an agricultural economy.