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AYSCOUGH, SAMUEL (1745-1804)

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AYSCOUGH, See also:SAMUEL (1745-1804) , See also:English librarian and See also:index-maker, was See also:born at See also:Nottingham in 1745. His See also:father, a printer and stationer, having ruined himself by See also:speculation, Samuel Ayscough See also:left Nottingham for See also:London, where he obtained an engagement in the cataloguing See also:department of the See also:British Museum. In 1782 he published a two-See also:volume See also:catalogue of the then undescribed See also:manuscripts in the museum. About 1785 he was appointed assistant librarian at the museum, and soon afterwards took See also:holy orders. In 1786 he published an index to the first seventy volumes of the Monthly See also:Review, and in 1796 indexed the remaining volumes. Both this index and his catalogue of the undescribed manuscripts in the museum were private ventures. His first See also:official See also:work was a third See also:share in the British Museum catalogue of 1787, and he subsequently catalogued the See also:ancient rolls and charters, 16,000 in all. In 1789 he produced the first two volumes of the index to the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine,and in 1790 the first index-See also:concordance to See also:Shakespeare. He was a See also:Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and has been called " The See also:Prince of Indexers." He died at the British Museum on the 3oth of See also:October 1804.

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