master-generalship

Updated: May 4, 2025

In 1827, on the death of the Duke of York, the public mind pointed to the Duke of Wellington as the fit successor of his royal highness in the important post of Commander-in-Chief, and he was immediately appointed. The Duke held this office until the appointment of Mr. Canning to be Prime Minister, when he resigned it, and also the Master-Generalship of the Ordnance.

Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington - Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century

The Master-Generalship of Italy, subsidies for his army, an independent command in the Tyrolese country, whence he had come, were his demand. Overblown with self-conceit, the Romans refused him. They would listen to no conditions. They were in a thoroughly Chinese temper.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge