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PROLOCUTOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROLOCUTOR , one who speaks for others (See also:

Lat. See also:pro, for, and loqui, to speak) ; specifically the chairman of the See also:lower See also:house of See also:convocation in the two provinces of the See also:Church of See also:England, who presides in that house and acts as representative and spokesman in the upper house. He is elected by the lower house, subject to the approval of the See also:metropolitan.

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