vestryperson

English

Etymology

From vestry +‎ person.

Noun

vestryperson (plural vestrypersons or vestrypeople)

1. (uncommon) A member of a parochial vestry.

   Synonym: vestryman

   Hyponyms: vestryman, vestrywoman

   • 1978 July 23, Robert N. Willing, “A Ministry of Regional Leadership”, in The Living Church‎^[1], volume 177, number 4, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 9:

     We call it “a program of education for wardens, vestry and advisory board members.” It’s primarily to acquaint newly elected ones with their duties and responsibilities, but vestrypersons who have not been before can enroll too, if we have room for them.

   • 1979 March, Lawrence L. Brown, “Texas Bishop Vetoes Women Council Delegates in 1921”, in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, volume 48, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 94–95:

     The original Constitution and Canons of the Diocese, adopted by the Primary Convention in 1849, had no qualification of gender for voters in annual meetings, referred to the election of vestrymen, and gave no gender for council delegates. It can be presumed that no women would have thought of accepting election as vestryperson or council delegates at that period.

   • 2005, Craig D. Townsend, Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 122:

     The letter was dated March 8, some six weeks after the vestry’s letter to the bishop, and the only vestrypersons at that time to sign were John Peterson and Ransom Wake.