provost

provost
   A title applied to various officials, corresponding variously to ‘prior’, ‘dean’, or in secular circumstances, to ‘chief official’, ‘mayor’, ‘chief magistrate’. The provost could also be a kind of police officer, and in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure appears to be the keeper of the prison. ‘Hail to you, Provost! so I think you are,’ says the Duke, when he visits the prison.
   At the universities of Oxford and Cambridge ‘provost’ is the title given to the heads of certain colleges. There may also be a pro-provost. Philip Leech holds this position in J.I. M.Stewart’s novel The Last Tresilians and is addressed during formal meetings by that term.
   In The House with the Green Shutters, by George Douglas, the Provost who is addressed by his title is the chief magistrate of a Scottish burgh.

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