Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804) was a librarian and indexer, who was described as the "Prince of Index Makers". Samuel Ayscough was the grandson of William...
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subscribing libraries. A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the British Museum) with some assistance or...
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Francis Ayscough (19 December 1701 – 16 August 1763) was a tutor to George III and Clerk of the Closet to George’s father Frederick, Prince of Wales and...
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Isaac Newton (redirect from Hannah Ayscough)
before. Born prematurely, Newton was a small child; his mother Hannah Ayscough reportedly said that he could have fit inside a quart mug. When Newton...
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August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714) October 30 – Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745) November 5 – Betje Wolff...
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Dean of Westminster Michael Argyle (1925-2002) social psychologist Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804), index compiler Ben G. Davis (b. 1970), chemist and fellow...
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– The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Robert Burns – "Tam o' Shanter" Samuel Ayscough – An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakespeare...
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Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate, edited by Thomas Astle, Samuel Ayscough and John Caley. This article incorporates text from this source, which...
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Intelligence. He indexed the Philosophical Transactions, collaborated with Samuel Ayscough on a catalogue of the British Museum's printed books, and translated...
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This work superseded the Copious Index to ... Shakespeare (1790) of Samuel Ayscough, and the Complete Verbal Index ... (1805–1807) of Francis Twiss. In...
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