Tony Blair described him as "a life-long servant of the Labour Party"; When asked by a journalist to choose his own epitaph, the answer had been "he was a canny lad".
One whom I couldn't go past was the recently retired Os du Randt, a long, loyal servant of the Springboks who played Test rugby from 1994 to 2007 and won 80 caps.
Though long a servant of Republican administrations, Gates cut his teeth at the CIA and was seen as above the partisan fray.
With plenty of support from the public, congress, journalists, economists, and the Administration, DeMarco's push back seems more like a spoiled child's tantrum as opposed to simple ignorance on the part of a life long civil servant with an axe to grind.
The qualities of that Deportivo team were summed up by their long-standing servant, the Brazilian Mauro Silva.
She insisted that the knockabout parable of a schizophrenic master and his long-suffering servant is "worth reviving despite its author's 100th birthday".
Barbara Strozzi was the adopted daughter and likely the illegitimate child of the poet Giulio Strozzi; her mother, Isabella Garzoni, was a "long-time servant" in Giulio's household.
But for latter-day Brontëites, the story isn't of one genius, or even three, but five, with Aunt Branwell and the long-suffering servant Tabby in supporting roles.
The British actor Burt Kwouk, best known for his role as Cato Fong – the long-suffering servant of Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther – died this week.
"For too long civil servants have resorted to relying on false stereotypes and humiliating questions to probe a claimant's sexuality.
Both exhibitions include a number of these painterly photographs: scenes from Shakespeare and the Bible; moral homilies; pastiches of Raphael Madonnas modelled by Cameron's long-suffering servant Mary Hillier; Tennyson as medieval minstrel; the servants acting out a scene from Browning; Lady Elcho, elderly and exophthalmic, got up as the Cumaean Sibyl.
