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Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)
2026-11-15 01:48:00 · Cedar Herald Index
The Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society at University College Dublin, Ireland is a position elected by the members of the society. In this setting, the term auditor has no connection with accounting but means "a position corresponding to that of President of the Union at Oxford or Cambridge" (Oxford English Dictionary). Some former auditors of the society have gone on to careers of high distinction in law, politics, medicine, academia, journalism, and other endeavours.
This is a list of the auditors from when the society was founded by John Henry Newman in 1855 to the present:

1856–1857 Henry S. Bethell
1857–1858 Augustus P. Bethell
1858–1859 Hugh Hyacinth MacDermot
1859–1860 Richard Fennelly
1861–1862 Philip Farrelly
1862–1863 John Kean
1863–1864 John Butler
1864–1865 Morgan B. Kavanagh
1865–1866 Robert Wogan MacDonnell
1866–1867 Patrick J. O'Connor
1867–1868 Charles Dawson
1868–1869 N. J. Gossan
1869–1870 William Dillon
1870–1871 George Fottrell
1871–1872 Michael Charles Aughney
1872–1873 Michael Francis Cox
1873–1874 Michael O'Meara
1874–1875 John Dillon
1875–1876 Gerald Griffin
1876–1877 John Francis O'Carroll
1877–1878 Michael Duff
1878–1879 Ignatius O'Brien
1880–1881 J. D. McFeeley
1882–1883 Joseph McGrath
