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When Anna was seven, her father having been appointed Canon-Residentiary at the Cathedral, they moved to Lichfield, Staffordshire, moving into the Bishop's Palace when the Bishop refused to live in it.
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That at the west end, by Salviati, is in memory of William Hale Hale, a voluminous writer and editor of the "Domesday of St. Paul's," who was a Residentiary, Archdeacon of
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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Canon Residentiary, and President of the Chapter, and the general laxity was largely due to this concentration of authority in the hands of one bad man through non-residence.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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And when, in April, 1884, Mr. Gladstone nominated him to a Residentiary Canonry at St. Paul's, everyone felt that the Prime Minister had matched a great man with
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Mr. Seward, who had become a Canon Residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral, performed the ceremony, and shed “tears of joy while he pronounced the nuptial benediction,” and Anna Seward is recorded to have been really glad to see
Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Stapleton Martin 1884
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Incidental notice has been taken in the preceding pages of Chantries in St. Paul's, but we have to speak more fully of these, for they formed a very large source of income, especially to the Residentiary
Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870
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Dr. Henry King, then chief Residentiary of St. Paul's, who caused him to be thus carved in one entire piece of white marble, as it now stands in that church; and, by Dr. Donne's own appointment, these words were affixed to it as an epitaph: --
Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870
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We dined at the Residentiary-house with good Dr. Hughes, [375] Allan
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Dr. Taylor died, universally lamented and be* loved, at his Residentiary - house, Amen-corner,
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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Written by Derek Ingram Hill, who is Canon Residentiary at the Cathedral, it is entitled, Christ's Glorious Church, with a foreword by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.
Special Luncheon 1976
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