rate-collector

The West Dulwich man who struck a rate-collector on the head with a telephone claims credit for finding some use for these instruments.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various

I might go further and say that in the city I lived to work for other people, for my brains were daily exploited that my master might maintain a house at Kensington, and when the landlord, the water-lord, the light-lord, and the rate-collector had all had their dues from me there was little enough left that I could call my own.

The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907

He is not earning fifty pounds for himself but fifty pounds for the landlord, the rate-collector, the gas-man, the restaurant proprietor, the omnibus and railway companies.

The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907

Deceased was a rate-collector and insurance agent.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

My house, though in the eyes of the rate-collector fully occupied, has now for several weeks stood with an unmistakably vacant stare.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 Various 1898

"Jaded Householder" writes to say that when this becomes law anybody can have the name of his rate-collector.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 Various 1898

It consisted of statements of the part played in social life by the rate-collector, the policeman, and so on, accompanied by a moral for each section, such as 'serving personal interest is not enough,' 'need of public spirit and intelligence for good Government,' 'need of honesty in giving a vote,' 'the vote a trust as well as a right.'

Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

In the census returns it is not quite unusual to see the names of women returned as parish clerks, and we have many who discharge the duties of churchwarden, overseer, rate-collector, and other parochial offices.

The Parish Clerk 1892

If these people had really meant to do what they pretended, they would not have cared whether they paid the money to a rate-collector or to the secretary of a charity society and they would have preferred to accomplish their object in the most efficient and economical way.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

Imagine Mr. Langham interviewed by a rate-collector or troubled about coals!

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885