- a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
- sexton (def. 2).
- U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
- (formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order
- (in Scotland) a church official attending on the minister
- a synagogue attendant
- an official in certain British universities and other institutions
- George Wells . 1903–89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics
