Early presiding officers were known by the title "parlour" or "prolocutor". The current prolocutor is the Cynthia Haines Turner, who previously served as Deputy Prolocutor. The proposed censure was dropped apparently by the action of Francis Atterbury as prolocutor. In 1624 he became vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West, and 1625 a prolocutor to Charles I. Parliament chose William Twisse, an internationally respected theologian, to be the Assembly's prolocutor or chairman. The current Prolocutor is Cynthia Haines Turner; the Deputy Prolocutor is Peter Wall. In the same year he was appointed Vice Prolocutor. The prolocutor of the Governing Body is the station commander of Jalalabad Cantonment. The other officers, elected at each General Synod, are the Prolocutor and the Deputy Prolocutor. The prolocutor is a brigadier general of the Bangladesh Army. The office of Prolocutor has its origins in the bi-cameral Provincial and General Synods. A prolocutor is a chairman of some ecclesiastical assemblies in Anglicanism. Only clergy and laity, not bishops, may serve as Prolocutor. He was appointed prolocutor of the Provincial Assembly of London on 3 May 1647.