[SUB- 6.] An assistant or deputy treasurer.
The specific designation of an official of Hereford and Truro Cathedrals, and of the Inner Temple; in U.S. of the official in charge of a subtreasury.
1546, 1786. [implied in SUBTREASURERSHIP].
1821. Lamb, Elia, Old Benchers Inner T. But the worthy sub-treasurer—who respects his old and his new masters—would but have been puzzled.
1849. Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 172. I suddenly reflected that the treasurer—with all the race of sub-treasurers—had departed.
1882. Ainger, Lamb, vi. 103. His father’s old and loyal friend Randal Norris, the sub-treasurer of the Inner Temple.
Hence Subtreasurership, the office of a subtreasurer.
1546. Yks. Chantry-Surv. (Surtees), II. 363. The Subtresorershyppe in the saide Churche.
1786. J. Bacon, Liber Regis, 1102. Diocese of York. The Cathedral Church…. Sub Treasurership.
