• A clerk of works or clerk of the works (CoW) is employed by an architect or a client on a construction site. The role is primarily to represent the interests...
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    of the socio-economic strata where the working and middle classes overlap. Clerks (film) Clerk baronets Clerk family Clerk (surname) Clerk of works Court...
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  • Look up Clerk or clerk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A clerk is someone who works in an office. A retail clerk works in a store. Clerk(s) may also...
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    Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of...
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    design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports...
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  • Robert Stickells (category Household of Anne of Denmark)
    architect and clerk of works. Stickells was first recorded working to clear obstacles from the harbour at Dover. In 1591 he supervised the panelling of Grocer's...
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    literally translated as "Public Works Engineer" obtained after three years of study and equivalent to a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. In the second...
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    1382. He was also the clerk of works when much of Windsor Castle was built. William of Wykeham (born William Longe) was the son of John Longe, a freeman...
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  • A staff clerk is a professional specialist clerk in the British Army who is a member of an administrative corps, as opposed to a unit clerk, who is a...
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  • articled to Henry Rice of Liskeard and subsequently worked as assistant to Sir George Gilbert Scott from 1847 to 1864. He was clerk of works on the Albert Memorial...
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