He is described as low in stature, lean, and of a pale complexion, slovenly in his dress, and having a committed and long-standing habit of tobacco use (an "inveterate smoker").
I disagree strongly with the imputation that protecting me from being poisoned by lazy, slovenly or tightfisted restauranteurs is a bad thing or evidence of a nanny state.
The chancellor of the cathedral church is charged with the oversight of its schools, ought to read divinity lectures, and superintend the lections in the choir and correct slovenly readers.