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Select vestry

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a select number of persons chosen in large and populous English parishes to represent and manage the concerns of the parish for one year.

See also: Vestry



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She was accepted by the Select Vestry of the Workhouse (its committee) in 1865, thus becoming the first nurse to be appointed superintendent of any such institution in Britain.
Agnes was accepted by the Select Vestry of the Workhouse (the committee people of the time) in 1865 and became the first trained nurse to be appointed superintendent at any such insitution in Britain.
 
 
 
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