vice-master

From the lede of this article:A policewoman today told how the former vice-master of a Cambridge college "groped" her while making a "pervy Benny Hill noise" after inviting her to his room for gin and tonics.

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Fr. Wemherus de Tettingen, commander in Elbing, general vice-master and lieutenant in the roome of the master generall of the Dutch knights of the Order of S. Marie &c. of late deceased.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And to promote her plans still further, she appointed the successful playwright John Lyly as their vice-master, with the understanding, no doubt, that he was to keep them -- and her -- supplied with plays.

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

Two servants approached the vice-master at the head of the first table, laid down upon it a narrow roll of linen, and then the guests rolled this along by pushing it from either side until, when it had reached the other end, a strip of smooth linen was left along the middle of the whole table.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

I found myself between the vice-master, Trotter, and Professor Humphrey, the distinguished surgeon.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

The vice-master having then filled a large glass at his side from the dish, and I, at his suggestion, having done the same, the great dish was pushed down the table to guest after guest, each following our example.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

Then a great silver dish, with ladles on either side, and containing some sort of fragrant fluid, was set in front of the vice-master, upon the narrow strip of linen which had formed the roll, and the same thing was repeated at each of the other tables.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

There were no chairs whatever in Hall, except the single chair of the vice-master at the head of the table on the dais and that of the senior dean at the table next the East wall.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

She breathes the atmosphere of the house; its stern independence and simplicities; the scorns and the denials, the sturdy freedoms both of body and soul that it implies -- conscience the only master -- vice-master for God, in this His house of the World.

Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885

“His crime was, his disobedience to the vice-master, and his contumacy in taking his punishment inflicted by him.”

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882