Charity Commissioners

plural noun

1. (in Britain) members of a commission constituted to keep a register of charities and control charitable trusts

Example Sentences

He was standing counsel to the university of Oxford, and senior counsel to the Charity Commissioners, and was engaged in all the important Chancery suits of his time.

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Charity Commissioners’ schemes, 299, 331, 341, 388, 407, 467.

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Commercial School, Norwich, establishment of, 64, 73; Mr. T. R. Pinder appointed master, 111; resignation, 483; memorial from parents, 171; amended scheme of management, 191; Charity Commissioners’ inquiry and schemes, 331, 341; Mr. W. R. Gurley appointed master, 483.

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On March 28th the Mayor received from the Charity Commissioners a letter explaining that the restrictions in the scheme against the benefits of the charities being extended to persons who were, or who had recently been in receipt of Poor-law relief, were in the view of the Commissioners calculated to encourage habits of thrift and to give effect to the well-known law against persons in receipt of Poor-law relief participating in such charities. 

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Norwich Town Council approved a scheme formulated by the Charity Commissioners for the administration of Anguish’s endowment for boys. 

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