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Yeoman of the guard
Yeoman Yeo"man, n.; pl. Yeomen. [OE. yoman, [yogh]eman, [yogh]oman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. g[=a] district, region, G. gau, OHG. gewi, gouwi, Goth. gawi. [root]100.] 1. A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. Note: A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States. 2. A servant; a retainer. [Obs.] A yeman hadde he and servants no mo. --Chaucer. 3. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [Eng.] 4. (Naut.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.

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- the Yeoman of the Guard, led by John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, formally escorted Henry Tudor to his coronation ceremony.: 916  This appearance of...
- of the Guard: Oxford Castle" Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Oxford Times, 19 August 2010 Christiansen, Rupert. "The Yeoman of the Guard...
- Yeoman /ˈjoʊmən/ is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble...
- The Yeomen Warders of His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary...
- The Yeoman of the Guard is a 1978 British TV version of Gilbert and ****van's Savoy opera The Yeomen of the Guard. It was a filmed version of a 1978 stage...
- married Elizabeth Wyckes (d. 1529). She was the widow of Thomas Williams, a Yeoman of the Guard, and the daughter of a Putney shearman, Henry Wyckes, who had...
- Guards, known as the King's Life Guard. An infantry contingent, typically one of the Household Division's five regiments of foot guards, mounts the King's...
- divisional sergeant major of HM Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard. He died 15 March 1966. His Victoria Cross is displa**** at the Royal Marines Museum in...
- achieved the rank of regimental sergeant-major and in 1862 became a Yeoman of the Guard. His Victoria Cross is displa**** at the Regimental Museum of the 9th/12th...
- death. Elizabeth married as her first husband Thomas Williams, a Yeoman of the Guard. There were no known children from this union. Around 1515, Elizabeth...