Gardiner met the King of Jordan while working as a secretarial assistant on the film set of Lawrence of Arabia.

A full-time secretarial assistant, Annpaige Bowles, had been hired a few years earlier to assist in the demanding office work and take care of the museum.

When he abruptly offers to pay Nelly's debts and even employ her as a secretarial assistant, Nelly suddenly finds the wherewithal to change her life.

The physical facility doubled in size and has a full time director, three teachers and two secretarial assistants.

MPs' allowances to engage legislative and secretarial assistants were also increased from $1,000 to $1,300 and from $350 to $500 respectively.

He devoted enormous energy to work as an unpaid secretarial assistant to his wife's cousin Florence Nightingale.

With two part-time secretarial assistants, MEED was produced on a hand-cranked Ronco printing machine.

And he said, 'I don't care, I'll be your secretarial assistant.'

He was the subject of controversy for hiring his wife Róisín as his secretarial assistant and his cousin Tommy Griffin as his parliamentary assistant.

Under the current expenses regime, a former taoiseach may employ two secretarial assistants for up to five years after leaving office and one indefinitely after that.