Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
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Their full title is Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2024
The full title of the role is Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Major Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons.
From Time Magazine Archive
While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the following Saturday, the Earl of Derwentwater was brought by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod before the Bar, where he knelt, until told by the Lord Chancellor to rise.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
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