[SUB- 6.] An official next below a governor in rank.
Formerly the title of officials in royal and noble households, and in the South Sea and other companies.
1683. Baxter, Dying Thoughts, 132. As now I am under the government of his Officers on Earth, I look for ever to be under subgovernours in Heaven.
1698. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 433. George Sayer, esq. a member of parliament, is made sub-governor to the duke of Gloucester.
1702. Lond. Gaz., No. 3772/4. The Royal African Company of England have appointed the Election of a Governour, Sub-Governor, and Deputy-Governor; on Tuesday the 13th Instant.
1721. Act 7 Geo. I., c. 2 § 1. The many Frauds … which were committed by the late Sub-Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors of the said [South-Sea] Company.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 282. The sub-governor and viceroy of New Spain.
1755. J. Chamberlayne, M. Brit. Notitia, II. 257. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’s Officers and Servants. Governor … Preceptor … Sub-Governor … Sub-Preceptor.
1822. Edin. Rev., XXXVII. 5. Stone, the subgovernor and confident of the Duke of Newcastle.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. xxxviii. V. 2. [Darius] directed the various satraps and sub-governors throughout all Asia to provide troops.
b. Similarly subgovernor general.
1784. J. King, Cook’s 3rd Voy., V. vi. The Sub-governor General, who was at this time making a tour through all the provinces of the Governor General of Jakutsk.
