ROBERT

See also:

• AINSWORTH, HENRY (1571–1622)
• ROBERT AINSWORTH (166o-1743)
• AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (1805-1882)

AINSWORTH (166o-1743)  , English schoolmaster and author, was born at Eccles, near Manchester, in September 166o . After teaching for some time at Lever's Grammar School in Bolton, he removed to London, where he conducted a boarding-school, first at Bethnal Green and then at Hackney . He soon made a moderate fortune which gave him leisure to pursue his classical studies . Ainsworth's name is associated with his Latin-English Dictionary, begun in 1714, and published in 1736 as Thesaurus linguae Latinae compendiarius . It was long extensively used in schools, and often reprinted, the later editions being revised And enlarged by other hands, but it is now superseded . Ainsworth was also the author of some useful works on classical antiquities, and a sensible treatise on education, en-titled The most Natural and Easy Way of Institution (1698), in which he advocates the teaching of Latin by conversational methods and deprecates punishment of any sort . He died in London on the 4th of April 1743 .