Sentence examples for wardenship from inspiring English sources

He spent his wardenship resisting innovations, from the introduction of graduate students to the election of female fellows.

He left government work in 1953 to accept the wardenship of Missenden Abbey Adult Education College.

But Pitt, though personally deeply in debt most of his life, never took money for himself, with the single exception of his wardenship of the Cinque ports - and that was an honour richly earned.

In turning down the wardenship of Nuffield College, he describes the place as "a bleak Institute near the Station, dedicated to local government, Public Administration, Black men... a cross between an inferior London School of Economics & Sheffield University..."...

On the strength of it he became a ready-made public figure: given a professorial chair at Birmingham, where he founded a cultural studies centre, invited to testify at the Chatterley trial, following the Unesco job with the wardenship of Goldsmith's College, and serving on practically every arts world public body worth the name.

He published original contributions to the theory of voting; yet he designed a system for a Wardenship election in Oxford that permitted — and produced — massive tactical voting.

Hōjō Tokimasa (1138 1215), the first known member of the family, was charged by the Japanese ruler Taira Kiyomori with the co-wardenship of the exiled Minamoto Yoritomo in 1160.

Despite having studied medicine at Glasgow University and worked as an apothecary, Felix is adamant that he has no interest in scrambling up the social ladder for "the sake of two parlours, a rank eligible for the church-wardenship [and] a discontented wife".