J. C. Clutterbuck, now rector of Long Wittenham, near Abingdon, is well known as a conservator of the Thames, to whom the Universities and rowing men are much indebted for the clauses in the Conservancy Acts which give that body powers to clear the river for boat racing.
"Boating"
W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason
Although the conservator of truth of every form and degree wherever found, Judge Troward was a ruthless destroyer of sham and pretence.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
Edward Carpenter had been writing it as a result of Whitman's influence, in Towards Democracy in 1883. In America Horace Traubel, long before the free verse vogue started, had been writing in his The conservator free verse poems.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell