The word "executor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person or institution appointed by a court to carry out the wishes of a deceased person, usually of their estate. For example: The executor of the estate was in charge of ensuring that all of the deceased's assets were distributed according to the terms of the will.
When appointed literary executor, Clapp was instructed by Carter simply to "make money for my boys" (her son and her second husband Mark Pearce).
NatWest Bank, which is acting as the Jim'll Fix It presenter's executor and trustee, said the distribution of his assets had been put on hold in anticipation of legal action from his alleged victims.
Friends and admirers of Carter assess her newly unearthed poems in a Radio 4 programme broadcast this afternoon and presented by the writer's literary executor, Susannah Clapp, the Observer's theatre critic.
To his mistress, Nelly de Vogüé, now 92, he remains "Christ-like", and as far as his literary executor, Frédéric d'Agay, is concerned: "You will never understand Saint-Exupéry unless you see him as a modern knight-errant of the highest moral principles".
If they had not, the pre-frontal cortex would be solidly implicated, not merely as the executor, but as the maker, of manners in man (or woman).Both subjects, judging from their ways of life, had experienced considerable difficulty in absorbing social norms.
Yet, in the end, most Socialists did follow the party line: British and French, Finns and Swedes rallied behind the commission, pulled by loyalty to the party—and to the commission itself, executor of policies generated in part by all those EU governments of the left.
A former graduate student of Lowell's at Harvard, Mr Bidart was appointed his literary executor after the poet's death.
According to Hughes's detractors, it was betrayal that drove her to that final despairing act.Hughes was Plath's literary executor, and the "Ariel" which Hughes presented to the world in 1965 was, in his guarded words, "a somewhat different volume" from the manuscript of the same title that Plath had forecast would make her name.
Some require a legal executor to make a request, while others honour requests from anyone who can prove a family connection or even a link to an online obituary.
Occasionally he slept with sisters of friends from his Etonian past because they were the next best thing.An added piquancy is that Mr Bloch, whom Lees-Milne made his literary executor, was also one of his most loyal and long-term late-in-life amours.
