[SUB- 6. OF. soub(s)collecteur, Sp. subcolector.] A deputy or assistant collector.
1558–9. Act 1 Eliz., c. 21 § 22. No … Commissioner, shalbe named or assigned to any Collector or Subcollector or presentor of the said Subsidie.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2306/4. The Sub-Collector of the Tenths of the said Diocess due His Majesty.
1758. J. Blake, Mar. Syst., 29. The collector, or sub-collector, of the customs.
1837. Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 93. A Mr. Macdonald, the sub-collector.
1902. Gairdner, Engl. Ch. 16th c., i. 12. Polydore Vergil was a native of Urbino, sent to England by Alexander VI. as sub-collector to Adrian.
