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