auditorship

Updated: May 13, 2025

He took the Auditorship, and resigned his other places. Smith became Chancellor of the Exchequer. A new commission of Treasury issued; and the first name was that of Tankerville. He had entered on his career, more than twenty years before, with the fairest hopes, young, noble, nobly allied, of distinguished abilities, of graceful manners.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5

It was to a poem on the death of Charles the Second, and to the City and Country Mouse, that Montague owed his introduction into public life, his earldom, his garter, and his Auditorship of the Exchequer. Swift, but for the unconquerable prejudice of the queen, would have been a bishop.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2