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Chief Secretary   /tʃif sˈɛkrətˌɛri/   Listen
Chief Secretary

noun
1.
A member of the British Cabinet.





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... new Chief Secretary for Ireland, posed specially yesterday for the Sunday Pictorial. He has a difficult task to ...
— Punch, Volume 156, January 22, 1919. • Various
... equity at their hands. A sorrowful-visaged husbandman is evidently experiencing the easy simplicity of Persian civil justice as I enter the garden; he wears the mournful expression of a man conscious of being irretrievably doomed, while the festive Kahn and his equally festive moonshi bashi (chief secretary) are laying their wicked heads together and whispering mysteriously, fifty paces away from everybody, ever and anon looking suspiciously around as though fearful of the presence of eavesdroppers. After duly binning, a young man called Abdullah, who seems to be at the beck and call of everybody, ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... Government's reliance upon D.O.R.A., and declared that the only people who were not in gaol were the murderers. That would mean that there are some four million assassins in Ireland; which I feel sure is an exaggeration. The two hundred thousand mentioned by the CHIEF SECRETARY would seem to be ample for any ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 10th, 1920 • Various
... April, 1807, he was made a privy councillor; and on the 19th of the same month, appointed chief secretary for Ireland, under the lord lieutenancy of the Duke of Richmond. On the 22nd, he was presented by the corporation of the city of Dublin with the freedom of that city. The address in which it was conveyed ...
— Maxims And Opinions Of Field-Marshal His Grace The Duke Of Wellington, Selected From His Writings And Speeches During A Public Life Of More Than Half A Century • Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
... in 1801 with Abbot, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and was appointed Deputy-Keeper of the Privy Seal. He ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


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