To think that I have been sitting alongside of a gentleman all the evening, and never found it out!" The doorkeepers and attendants at the House of Commons are all old servants, who generally have lived in great families, and have obtained their places through influential recommendations.

Doorkeeper was a common term for a pander.

The doorkeeper was a quiet man who had lost a leg in South Africa, after having been otherwise severely wounded five times in previous engagements.