Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [noun sg] of the royal " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman . |
| 2 | From 1895–1897 he was President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . |
| 3 | He was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1906 to 1910 and again in 1930–1 ; from 1904 till 1928 he was honorary consulting veterinary surgeon to the Royal Agricultural Society of England . |
| 4 | From 1951 to 1953 he was president of the Royal Meteorological Society , which made him an honorary fellow in 1976 . |
| 5 | For more than thirty years he was president of the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol . |
| 6 | He was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1976-78 where he was also honorary librarian and curator of arts . |