"He is at Lincoln; he has gone to try for the precentorship of the cathedral," Hetty announced.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"It will cost me the precentorship," answered he slowly, "but I hadn't given a thought to that."
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Thomas Newton, the commentator on Prophecy, was Dean of St. Paul's as well as Bishop of Bristol, and, before he became a bishop, held a living in the City, a Prebend of Westminster, the precentorship of York, the Lectureship of St. George's, Hanover Square, and "the genteel office of Sub-Almoner."
"Sydney Smith"
George W. E. Russell