Agent-general Definition

Agent-general Sentence Examples

• Subsequently he was agent-general for the Transvaal in London, and (1910) agentgeneral for the Union of South Africa.

• Nevertheless the acuteness of his powers, added no doubt to his social position, gained for him in the year 1780 the position of agent-general of the clergy of France, in which capacity he had to perform important administrative duties respecting the relations of the clergy to the civil power.

• The growing claims of the state on the exchequer of the clergy made his duties responsible, his colleague as agent-general being of little use.

• Though the excellence of his work as agent-general in the years 1780-86 was fully acknowledged, and earned him a special gift of 31,000 livres, yet he did not gain a bishopric until the beginning of the year 1789, probably because the king disliked him as a freethinker.

• On leaving Cambridge he went out to Australia (1850), and became a member of the government of Victoria, but in 1857 returned to England as agent-general of the colony.