Surmaster

[f. SUR- = SUPER- 6 a + MASTER sb.¹] The title of the second master at St. Paul’s School, London.

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c. 1512. Colet, in Archaeologia, LXII. 230. Twoo techers perpetuall oon callid the Maister, and that other callid the Ussher or surmaister.

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1744. Gen. Even. Post, No. 1658. Mr. Thickness, Chaplain or S^t. Pauls School was chosen Sur-Master of the said School.

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1886. Athenæum, 17 April, 521/2. The Rev. J. H. Lupton, sur-master of St. Paul’s School, is preparing … ‘Introduction to the Composition of Latin Lyric Verse.’

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1889. Pauline, VIII. 8. The Surmaster, on behalf of his colleagues and the school, accepted the gift.

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