The word sexton has several uses:

• A sexton is an official largely concerned with church maintenance
• The sexton was a self-propelled artillery vehicle of World War II.
• Anne Sexton was an American poet.
• John Sexton is the president of New York University.
• Sexton Blake is a fictional character who appeared in numerous penny dreadfuls.
  • from which Sexton Blake is a rhyming slang for the word 'fake'.
• A sexton beetle is another name for Burying beetle.