Word Finder - conservator

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One who conserves, preserves or protects something.

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A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.

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An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.

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A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.

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A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

Any chance of a paper conservator ever joining the team?

His services to his country are aptly epitomized in the epitaph on his ancient monument at Ringsted church which describes him as "Sclavorum dominator, patriae liberator et pacis conservator."

A horological conservator will advise on the care of clock cases.

You should not attempt to remove even tarnish from these yourself if you value them, but trust them to a specialist metals conservator.

A conservator will be able to carry out cleaning and give you advice on surface cleaning for architectural ironwork of all kinds.

However, progress was assured with the wholehearted backing of the Conservator, John Fletcher.

The Burma forests are divided into three circles each under a conservator, with twenty-one deputy conservators.

To put an end to these disorders, Walter of Brienne, duke of Athens, was elected "conservator" and captain of the guard in 13 4 2.

In 1807 he became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the university of Landshut, and in 1823 conservator of the mineralogical collections at Munich, where he was appointed professor of mineralogy three years later, on the removal thither of the university of Landshut.

His original mission being abandoned, funds were now advanced for the prosecution of his researches, and he remained in Egypt for four years, excavating, discovering and despatching archaeological treasures to the Louvre, of which museum he was on his return appointed an assistant conservator.

In 1858 he accepted the position of conservator of Egyptian monuments to the ex-khedive, Ismail Pasha, and removed with his family to Cairo.

He went in 1651 to Paris, where he formed a friendship with Gabriel Naude, conservator of the Mazarin library.

The project employs a professional conservator who has successfully trained a team of Khmer staff in these areas of expertise.

In 1823 he was appointed conservator of the physical cabinet at Munich, and in the following year he received from the king of Bavaria the civil order of merit.