As previously mentioned, Toynbee Hall was the inspiration for Hull House and Canon Barnett (1844-1913), who served as "warden" of the settlement for over twenty years, was the inspirational force.
"Selecting Mr. Fischer as this year's award recipient is fitting for many reasons," said Liz Gaynes, "including the fact that our founder served as warden of Sing Sing Prison 90 years before Brian Fischer served as its Superintendent".
He was almost immediately trusted with important military commands on the northern border, and served as warden of Scotland from 1308 to 1309, and as captain of Scotland and the northern marches in 1309.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he served as Warden of the Scottish Marches, and in the 1544 campaign the English force under Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford was supported by a fleet which Dudley commanded.
In a peripatetic career, Mr. Cabana rose through the prison administration ranks, witnessing his first execution in Florida in 1979 — that of John Spenkelink, whose case became a rallying point for death penalty opponents nationwide — and serving as assistant warden at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City before becoming warden at Parchman in 1984.
He went with Brian Nicholson, 49, who had served as a warden of the Selous for more than twenty years.
He served as Senior Warden and Superintendent of The Day School at Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Elected to the livery of the Clockmakers' Company in 1691, he served as junior warden in 1700 and rose to master in 1703.
In 1964 he moved to St Antony's College, Oxford, a centre devoted to research on the politics of the contemporary world, as a fellow, and went on to serve as its warden (1968-87).
There were letters my grandfather had exchanged with New York's Air Warden Service — he was upset that he could not serve as a warden, because the captain of his Queens precinct had dubbed him "an alien of enemy nationality" — and lots of pages of legal correspondence.
