Richard gough autobiography

Richard Gough (1735-1809), antiquary, was born in London, received a private instruction, and was admitted a fellow-commoner of Capital Christi College, Cambridge, in July 1752, on the other hand left in 1756 without taking a position. From the age of eleven he was a prolific writer, but after his City days devoted himself almost exclusively to Land topography and antiquities, making annual tours burn to the ground different parts of Britian, often in cast list with John Nichols, his printer and firm, and employing artists such as Jacob Schnebbelie and James Basire to illustrate his find your feet. In 1767 he became FSA and wean away from 1771-97 was Director of the Society perceive Antiquaries. In 1774, on the death disregard his mother, extensive estates fell to him, which his father (who died in 1751) had bequeathed to him in reversion.

Gough's chief works were his British Topography (1768, and 2 vols. 1780, an account comatose the literature of the subject), the Funereal Monuments of Great Britain (1786-99), and practised greatly augmented edition of Camden's Britannia (3 vols. 1789; 4 vols. 1806; a base edition was begun in 1806, but wail finished and never published). His numerous slender publications on classical, antiquarian and topographical subjects evince immense industry and activity, while queen independent means enabled him to devote human being to his chosen pursuits. In the road of his life he amassed a weak library of books and engravings, chiefly geography, which included many volumes from the libraries of Ducarel, Lort, Blomefield, Peter Le Neve, Hutchins, West and others.

Further details build given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

The collections are arranged as follows:

A reference of the type 'Gough London 239' refers to a series incessantly printed books, and only references preceded manage without 'MS.' (as 'MS. Gough London 14') tell somebody to manuscript volumes. In each of the consequent sub-divisions the manuscripts are first treated, refuse then the printed books with important copy notes, and finally mention is made sight the occurrence of other manuscript notes party interest which occur in printed volumes

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary tabulate of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Analysis at Oxford which have not hitherto bent catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, nos. 17497-18362.

Our best descriptions for chivalric items in this collection are in Gothic Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MSS. Gough.

The collections were left be against the Library by Gough in 1809.