Example sentences of "he [was/were] succeeded by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was succeeded by Geoffrey Fisher , who was 27 when he became headmaster and pulled the school together . |
| 2 | Frank Salter , the District Treasurer from 1918 , believed that financial appeals for new income in a sparsely populated region with a low wage economy and high unemployment , was an insuperable task and in 1931 he was succeeded by Lionel Elvin , Fellow of Trinity Hall , as the District 's honorary treasurer , and who brought much vigour and commitment to resolving the perennial financial problem . |
| 3 | Although the most successful county in the District in demonstrating the effectiveness of a resident tutor through the considerable talents of Harold Shearman who had provided the building blocks for co-operative endeavour between the Cambridge Board and the WEA during the early thirties , the position began to change when he was succeeded by Harold Plaskitt as the university 's resident tutor in 1936 . |
| 4 | He was succeeded by his brother , James II . |
| 5 | Thee Black Prince died before King Edward died in 1377 , so he was succeeded by his grandson , Richard II , who was only ten years old , He was overshadowed by his three royal uncles , Edmund , Duke of York ; Thomas , Duke of Gloucester , and John , Duke of Lancaster . |
| 6 | George I died in June 1727 , whilst on a visit to Hanover , and he was succeeded by the more cultured George II , whose wife was Caroline of Anspach , and she fitted well into London . |
| 7 | In that same year , the Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister until George IV died in June 1830 , when he was succeeded by William IV who was sympathetic to the Whig party and a supporter of the Reform Bill which had been introduced by Earl Grey , who became Prime Minister following the Duke of Wellington . |
| 8 | Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin retired , in May 1937 , with an earldom , and he was succeeded by Mr. Neville Chamberlain . |
| 9 | He was succeeded by Captain Garner who was shortly afterwards called up ! |
| 10 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 11 | When Walter died , he was succeeded by his son Allan , who inherited the post of Steward , later called High Steward . |
| 12 | He was succeeded by F. W. Anderson who acted as palaeontologist in Edinburgh until 1953 except for the period of the Second World War when he was in the army . |
| 13 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 14 | But when victory gave way to stalemate and defeat , when the king 's early vigour gave way to senility , and when he was succeeded by a king with a very different personality , the limitations of his achievement became all too apparent . |
| 15 | He was succeeded by Okuma Shigenobu , who re-negotiated to restrict the inclusion of foreign judges to the Supreme Court ; foreign approval for the new legal code was also waived . |
| 16 | He was succeeded by his daughter , and on her death in 1826 the Barony passed by will to Lady Vernon of Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | He was succeeded by George Bamford who was appointed on 17th September 1521 and stayed in office until 1533 . |
| 18 | He was succeeded by Col. Geoffry Christie-Miller , and Mr. Frederick Towns became Vice-Chairman . |
| 19 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 20 | Griffiths continued the lectures until 1934 when he was succeeded by his former pupils . |
| 21 | He was succeeded by ( Sir ) William Napier Shaw [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | According to the Weekly Journal he was succeeded by his son-in-law , John Smith . |
| 23 | He was succeeded by John de Sheppey [ q.v. ] , whom he had himself chosen as prior in 1333 . |
| 24 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 25 | One may summarize the conclusions reached with respect to , and within the terms of , the traditional account of the Muftilik as follows : ( a ) that Fahreddin Acemi remained as Mufti , whether in Edirne or Istanbul , until his death , which occurred probably not later than 873/1468 ; ( b ) that he was succeeded by Abdulkerim , who seems likely to have resigned or been removed about 878/1473–4 ; ( c ) that Molla Husrev succeeded to the office about 878/1473–4 and held it until his death in 885/1480–1 ; ( d ) that he was succeeded by Molla Gurani in 885/1480–1 ( but cf. below , pp. 144–6 , 150 ) , who retained the office until his death in 893/1488 ; and ( e ) that Molla Arab succeeded Molla Gurani in that year and remained Mufti until his death in 901/1495–6 . |
| 26 | One may summarize the conclusions reached with respect to , and within the terms of , the traditional account of the Muftilik as follows : ( a ) that Fahreddin Acemi remained as Mufti , whether in Edirne or Istanbul , until his death , which occurred probably not later than 873/1468 ; ( b ) that he was succeeded by Abdulkerim , who seems likely to have resigned or been removed about 878/1473–4 ; ( c ) that Molla Husrev succeeded to the office about 878/1473–4 and held it until his death in 885/1480–1 ; ( d ) that he was succeeded by Molla Gurani in 885/1480–1 ( but cf. below , pp. 144–6 , 150 ) , who retained the office until his death in 893/1488 ; and ( e ) that Molla Arab succeeded Molla Gurani in that year and remained Mufti until his death in 901/1495–6 . |
| 27 | When he died in 1751 he was succeeded by his son William V , then a child of three . |
| 28 | He was succeeded by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a member of the country 's Supreme Court and the first female President in Haiti 's 186-year history . |
| 29 | He was succeeded by his eldest son , Prince Hans Adam , who had taken over executive authority in 1984 . |
| 30 | The first CBT chairman to resign in 130 years , he was succeeded by CBT vice-chairman , William F. O'Connor . |