townsman

A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.

A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.

Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).