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WARDEN , a custodian, defender, See also:guardian (see GUARDIAN, a word with which it is etymologically identical). The word is frequently employed in the See also:ordinary sense of a watchman or guardian, but more usually in See also:England in the sense of a See also:chief or See also:head See also:official. The lords wardens of the See also:marches, for example, were powerful nobles appointed to guard the See also:borders of See also:Scotland and of See also:Wales; they held their lands per baroniam, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:writ not See also:running against them, and they had extensive rights of administrating See also:justice. The chief officer of the See also:ancient See also:stannaries of See also:Cornwall has the See also:title of See also:lord warden (see STANNARIES), as has also the See also:governor of See also:Dover See also:Castle (see CINQUE PORTS). Warden was until 1870 the alternative title of the See also:master of the See also:mint, and " warden of the See also:standards " the title of the head of the Standards See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (see STANDARDS). The See also:principal or head of several of the colleges of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford University is also termed warden.
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