Rector
in the Established Church of England a clergyman who has charge of a parish, and has the parsonage and tithes; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate, as distinguished from a vicar. In the Roman Catholic Church, the head of a religious house; among the Jesuits, the head of a house that is a seminary or college. Also the principal of a university in France and Scotland, also the heads of Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, Oxford. In Scotd the headmaster of an academy, or important public school.