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In the Nordic countries, a provost (Danish and older Norwegian provst, modern Norwegian prost, Swedish prost (under the current system kontraktsprost), Icelandic prófastur (from the Old English prÅfast), Finnish rovasti) is the leader of a provsti (Nor. prosti, Ice. prófastsdæmi, Swe. kontrakt), an administrative territorial unit within the Lutheran national churches which comprises ...
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In 1892, Dundee became the last city to be granted a lord provostship, and Belfast was granted a lord mayoralty, as was Cork in 1900. Cork and Dublin ceased to be part of the United Kingdom in 1922, but still have lord mayors. Cardiff was granted the first lord mayoralty in Wales in 1905.
Royal provostships were double faceted. Provosts were initially entrusted with royal power and carried out the royal part of local administration, including the collection of the Crown's domainal revenues and all taxes and duties owed to the King within a provostship's jurisdiction. Also, they were responsible for military defense such as ...
Provost is a title held by the civic heads of local governments in Scotland.It is similar in use to the title of mayor in other parts of the English-speaking world.. In the 32 current unitary councils in Scotland, the title is often used for the convenor or civic head of a council, elected by its members to chair meetings and to represent the council.
Robert Howard Hodgkin [note 1] was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 24 April 1877, [4] [5] at the family house Benwell Dene. [6] [7] His mother was Lucy Hodgkin (born Lucy Anna Fox), [8] [9] and his father was Thomas Hodgkin, a banker and historian of Europe in the Middle Ages.
After post-doctoral positions in Bologna, Italy, and Nijmegen, Netherlands, he became a lecturer at Trinity in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1998.. With colleagues from medicine and dentistry, he established the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering in 2002, [1] and was appointed as a Personal Chair in Bio-Engineering in 2
In the summer of 1811, Mason accepted the office of Provost of Columbia College, and in the summer of 1812, the Murray Street Church was ready for occupancy. Mason took up the strenuous duties of running the congregation while continuing to work and teach at the college.