My great grandfather was bailif at his home in Cghurt Surry.

The shepherd looked at the sky, from which a drizzling rain was falling, at the wood, at the bailif's wet clothes, pondered, and said nothing.

He advanced quickly, first taking part in the secret council of the court and then advancing to chamberlain in 1790 and bailif in Lörrach in 1792.

The positioning of the Lares at the House of Menander suggest that the paterfamilias delegated this religious task to his villicus (bailif).

He resigned his seat in the Commons on 20 December 1961, taking the sinecure of Steward and bailif of the Manor of Northstead.