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Grey, Richard — Memoria Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory:

Applied to, and Exemplified in, Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy: also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, Measures, &c, with Tables proper to the respective Sciences; and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. small 8vo bound in contemporary calf with gilt decorations and raised bands Published in Wolverhampten printed by J. Smart for W. Londes, London 1790 [8],xxvi,159,[28] armorial bookplate of Robert Clutterbuck (He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Clutterbuck, of Watford Hertfordshire by Sarah, daughter of Robert Thurgood of Baldock. He was born at Watford on 28 June 1772 and was sent to Harrow School at an early age. He went to Exeter College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner. After graduating B.A. in 1794, he entered Lincoln's Inn, intending to make the law his profession, but became more interested in chemistry and painting (in which he took lessons from James Barry. In 1798, he married Marianne, the eldest daughter of Colonel James Capper. After a few years living at the seat of his father's in-law, Cathays, near Cardiff, Glamorganshire, he took possession of his paternal estate at Watford. He continued to live there until his death on 25 May 1831. He was a county magistrate and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.For 18 years, he worked on a new county history; it appeared under the title The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, compiled from the best-printed authorities and original records preserved in public repositories and private collections. Embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquity, and illustrated with a map of the County)

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Grey, Richard
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1790
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numismatics, memory antiquarian