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AYSCOUGH, SAMUEL (1745-1804)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 77 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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