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Definition of Chief secretary
1. Noun. A member of the British Cabinet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chief Secretary
Literary usage of Chief secretary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The Chancellor and the chief secretary are assisted at ministerial level by the
Financial and ... chief secretary to the Treasury (and Paymaster- General). ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Wherefore at a house about four miles further, we had another meeting; to which
the governor's secretary came, who was chief secretary of the province, ..."
3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"ing; to which the governor's secretary came, who was chief secretary of the
province, and had been formerly convinced. • made but one woman for one man ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The new chief secretary, while abstaining from displacing the i_r:r:- secretary,
whose encouragement of ... chief secretary. The general election at the ..."
5. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"Practically it is conducted for all important purposes by the chief secretary to
the Lord Lieutenant. The Chief The contrast in the history and legal ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"9 when he cowed the Orange lawyer, or ridiculed the chief secretary or viceroy,
the exultation of the Catholics knew no bounds. From 1810 his position was ..."
7. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville (1875)
"Grosvenor at the Privy Council—Hobhouse defeated in Westminster—Bill for Negro
Emancipation—The ' Russians on the Bosporus—Mr. Littleton chief secretary for ..."
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